The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Friday, confirmed 1, 483 new COVID-19 cases in the country with additional five coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours.
The health agency disclosed this on its Twitter page on Friday night.
According to NCDC, Nigeria now has 118,138 cases of the infection and the latest mortal cases bring the death toll in the country to 1,490.
It noted that so far, the country has tested 1,225,179 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded in the country on February 27, 2020.
NCDC said that the new infections were from 22 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
It stated that Kaduna State reported the highest number of infections with 545 new cases, raising the tally of cases in the State to 7,176 and 56 deaths.
The agency said that the FCT came second with 235 new infections, taking its tally to 15,506 infections and 119 deaths.
In other states, it reported Plateau with 127, Nasarawa-80, Oyo-72, Delta-65, Rivers-64, Kano-46, Ogun-46, Bayelsa-30, Gombe-30, Abia-28, Osun-27, Edo-25, Ondo-14, Sokoto-12, Zamfara-10, Bauchi-eight, Imo-five, Jigawa-four, Ekiti-four, Borno-four and Niger-two.
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