The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,430 cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 122,996.
The NCDC disclosed this on its website on Monday.
The country has so far tested 1,270,523 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020 in the country.
The Nigeria’s public health institute sadly registered three additional coronavirus related deaths in the last 24 hours in the country.
The NCDC stated that the new infections were reported from 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The agency, in its breakdown of the newly recorded infections, shows that Lagos state reported the highest number of confirmed infections with 744 cases.
This brought the total number of infections in the state to 45,684 and 292 deaths recorded.
Plateau reported 100 infections, Oyo had 77 and the FCT, the second most affected by the disease in the country registered 75 new infections.
Amongst other states were; Nasarawa-74, Katsina-48, Edo-42, Kano-41, Enugu-37, Rivers-34, Ogun-33, Kwara-32, Niger-28, Ebonyi-27, Kaduna-26, Borno-12, Yobe-10, Ekiti-five and Gombe-one.
The health agency also announced the discharge of 1,131 patients from isolation centers across the country.
According to it, the discharges today include 435 community recoveries in Lagos State and 184 community recoveries in Kaduna State managed in line with guidelines.
It noted that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) activated at Level 3, is coordinating response activities nationwide.
Data from the NCDC shows that a total of 87,092 samples were collected for testing as of November 20 as against the 136,077 tested the previous week.
