Nigeria has recorded 501 cases of coronavirus, increasing the total to 78,434.
The figures were issued on Sunday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on its Twitter handle.
Lagos has the highest number of cases -218.
The tweets read:
“501 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-218
FCT-112
Kaduna-53
Plateau-24
Katsina-21
Kano-16
Yobe-14
Ondo-10
Ogun-9
Edo-7
Bayelsa-5
Rivers-4
Borno-4
Osun-2
Ekiti-2.
“78,434 confirmed
68,303 discharged
1,221 deaths.”