The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday announced 298 new cases of coronavirus.
It explained that the new infections were reported from 15 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Plateau reported the highest number of new cases – 108, followed by Kaduna with 49 while Lagos –recorded 47.
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Others are Ogun – 18, Osun – 17, FCT – 15, Ondo – 14, Edo – eight, Oyo – six, Akwa Ibom – four, Cross River – four, Borno – three, Ekiti – two, while Bauchi, Kano, and Rivers have one more case each.
The new figure, which is 27 lesser than the last number of infections recorded on Saturday, brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 49,068.
Also a total 207 more recovered from the virus in the last 24hours bringing the total number of recovery to 36,497
