The number of daily coronavirus cases found in Nigeria as at Tuesday was 118, bringing the total number of infections In the country to 59,583.
As it was in the previous two days, no new deaths were recorded from the virus in the past 24 hours, meaning that the total death toll remains 1,113.
This is according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC.
The latest figures was recorded in the following 14 states – Lagos 41, Rivers 19, Osun 17, Nasarrawa 13, Kaduna 5, Anambra 5, Edo 3, Ogun 3, Kwara 3, Ondo 3, Katsina 2, Niger 2, Plateau 1, Akwa ibom 1.
Lagos had the highest tally on Tuesday with 41 new cases to extend it’s lead on the region most impacted.
On Monday, no new infections were found in the commercial city of over 20 million for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic.
Nigeria had been on a plateau in it’s Covid-19 epidemiological curve with the recurrent decline in the daily number of cases and fatalities.
For two months, daily cases have been stuck below 300, while death toll has been hovering around 15 and 20 per week for more than a month.
Meanwhile, there has been a sharp increase in the number of recovered patients.
Of the nearly 60,000 cases reported thus far, about 51,308 have recovered. Alittle over 7,000 infections are still active across the nation.
Testing has also improved a bit with almost 540,000 of Nigerians 200 million already tested.
