Nigeria recorded 15 coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths, the country’s Centre for Disease Control said on Sunday night.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in a statement on its website, said the West African nation also recorded 1,444 new cases of the virus.
The country has tested 1,154,138 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on February 27, 2020.
According to the public health agency, the new infections has taken the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 110,387, which includes 89,317 discharged cases and 1,435 deaths.
The agency said the 1,444 new cases were registered from 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the past 24 hours.
The health agency reported 15 COVID-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours.
According to it, Lagos, Plateau, and Kaduna recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections on Sunday, with 901, 136, and 57 cases respectively.
Other states with new cases were, FCT-54, Ebonyi-53, Akwa Ibom-52, Nasarawa-32, Osun-29, Ogun-28, Imo-16, Oyo-16, Edo-15, Kano-14, Rivers-10, Ekiti-7, Borno-6, Abia-f5, Benue-4, Yobe-4, Kebbi-3, and Anambra-2.
The NCDC disclosed that 3,950 patients were discharged from isolation centres across the country after the second test result returned negative.
It added that the discharge included 717 community recoveries in Lagos State and a backlog of 2,825 community recoveries in FCT managed in line with guidelines.
The NCDC says a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, is coordinating response activities nationwide.
