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Nigeria recorded 604 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 38,948.
The Nigeria Centre f0r Disease Control stated this via Twitter, noting that 16,061 patients have recovered from the virus and discharged.
It added that 833 deaths have been reported so far in the country.
According to data obtained on the agency’s website, Nigeria currently has 22,054 active COVID-19 cases.
The NCDC gave a state-by-state distribution of recorded infections in the country on Thursday as: “Lagos – 203, Oyo – 87, FCT – 79, Edo – 41, Osun – 35, Ogun – 24, Rivers – 22, Kaduna – 22, Akwa Ibom – 20, Plateau – 18, Delta – 9, Ebonyi – 9, Imo – 8, Enugu – 5, Kano – 5, Cross River – 5, Katsina – 4, Nasarawa – 3, Borno – 2, Ekiti – 2, and Bauchi – 1.”