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Nigeria recorded 544 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
The agency announced that the new infections brought the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 28,711.
It added that 11,665 patients have recovered and discharged, while 645 fatalities have been recorded across the country.
The Centre gave the state-by-state distribution of the cases reported on Sunday as follows; “Lagos – 199, Ebonyi – 65, Oyo – 47, Ondo – 46, Ogun – 31, Edo – 30, FCT – 28, Katsina – 25, Plateau – 15, Bayelsa – 11, Kaduna – 10, Adamawa – 10, Akwa Ibom – 8, Gombe – 7, Kano – 4, Taraba – 3, Rivers – 2, Abia – 2, and Ekiti – 1.”