The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has recorded 11 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 166, 767.
The centre said the 11 new infections were recorded in Lagos with nine cases, the FCT-one and Kano-one.
The NCDC also said that there were 1, 544 active cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
The centre said that out of the 166, 767 cases, 163, 096 people had been treated and discharged.
The agency said it recorded a total of 2, 117 deaths.
It added that 2,133,061 people had so far been tested.
The NCDC also said that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre, activated at Level II, had continued to coordinate the national response activities.
Nigeria started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign in March.
Cyprian Ngong, a senior registrar at the National Hospital, became the country’s first person to receive the vaccine in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, have also received their doses.
A total of 3.94 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine were shipped into the country.
Source: NAN
