Nigeria has recorded an additional 348 COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of infections in the country to 11,166.
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this on its twitter page late on Wednesday.
According to the agency’s report, 163 of the new cases were recorded in Lagos, 76 in the FCT and 23 in Ebonyi.
Other affected states were Rivers with 21 cases, Delta, Nasarawa and Niger with eight each, Enugu with six, five each in Bauchi, Edo, Ekiti, Gombe and Ondo ,four in Benue, two in Ogun, and one each in Osun, Plateau, Kogi and Anambra.
A total of 3,329 have been discharged, while 315 deaths have been recorded.
With the soaring figures, Lagos has remained the epicenter with 5,440 cases, closely followed by Kano State with 970 cases and the FCT with 763 cases.
The latest figures put Nigeria as third on the list of most infected African nations after South Africa and Egypt.
