Nigeria on Sunday recorded 269 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total infections in the country to 158,506.
Nigeria records its lowest COVID-19 daily infection figure in seven months on Saturday, which was 195 cases.
Nigeria suffered its worst phase of the COVID-19 outbreak between December and January as daily infections averaged over 1,000.
In the update by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday night, Lagos, the epicentre of the disease in Nigeria, which on Saturday recorded almost a third of the day’s total, had no infection.
Nigeria also recorded five deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the total fatality to 1,969, according to the NCDC.
