The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 269 cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 158,506.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Sunday also announced 5 COVID19 deaths, raising the total fatality in the country to 1,969.
The Nigeria Public Health institute stated that the new infections were registered across 18 states and the FCT with Enugu taking the lead with 78 cases followed by Bauchi with 37 cases.
Other States with new infections are: Rivers-22, Imo-18, Ogun-16, FCT-15, Akwa Ibom-13
Kaduna-13, Kebbi-11, Kwara-9, Edo-7, Ekiti-6, Borno-5, Yobe-5, Kano-4, Nasarawa-3, Osun-3, Anambra-2 and Plateau-2
The NCDC added that 230 patients have been discharged after testing negative to the disease as the discharged cases rises to 137, 875.
Its stated that the discharges today included 80 community recoveries in Kwara State managed in line with its guidelines.
The agency disclosed that the number of active cases had dropped from 19,909 on Monday March 01 to 18,647 in one week.
According to it, The active caseload increased by 19 on Sunday, an addition to 18,628 previously reported on Saturday.
It added that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, had continued to coordinate the national response activities in the country.
A total of 2,817 new cases were reported in the country last week Feb. 21 to Feb. 27, the lowest in three months.
According to the data provided by the agency 2,817 cases recorded last week is a reduction from the 3,864 cases recorded the previous week.
The country has so far tested 1,544,008 samples out of which 158,237 cases have been confirmed positive, a total of 137,645 cases have since been discharged after treatment, and currently, there are 18,628 patients in various isolation centres across the country.
