On Thursday night the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 373 new confirmed cases of COVID-19.
The new cases were registered from 20 states: Lagos (69), Osun (41), Kaduna (40), Oyo (40), FCT (35), Plateau (22), Rivers (19), Kano (17), Ogun (15), Abia (14), Gombe (12), Imo (9), Enugu (7), Kwara (6), Delta (5), Niger (2), Borno (1), Bauchi (1), and Nasarawa (1).
It brought the total in the country to 48,116.
Out of that number, 34,309 patients have been discharged and 966 deaths have been recorded.
Lagos still has the highest number of cases with 16,256, while Kogi has reported only five.
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari extended the second phase of the eased lockdown by another four weeks.
