The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that Nigeria recorded 601 new cases of COVID-19, with 7 new deaths on Thursday.
The centre, in its daily update, which was posted on its Facebook page on Thursday night, noted that the new cases were reported in 16 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The country’s infection toll now stands at 200,957 while the fatality toll now stands at 2,647.
The centre added that 8,964 people are still down with the disease while 189,346 others have recovered and already discharged so far.
However, the NCDC data revealed that Lagos State reported 173 cases while Edo came second on the log with 97 infections and the FCT ranked third with 68 new cases.
This is followed by South-southern states of Rivers and Delta with 50 and 45 cases respectively. Kaduna State recorded 28 cases, Ondo, 28; Akwa-Ibom, 25; Bayelsa, 16; while Imo in the South-east recorded 16 cases.
Also, Plateau state registered 15 cases, Anambra, 12; Ekiti, 11; Cross River and Oyo States registered six cases each, while Gombe and Benue recorded three and two cases to rank 16th and 17th respectively on the log.