Nigeria has recorded 565 new cases on Friday, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has said.
The NCDC disclosed this on its verified website on Saturday.
It said 76 people had recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Friday.
The agency also said that to date, 165,409 recoveries had been recorded nationwide in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Friday’s statistics is the total of reported cases across 16 states of the federation and the FCT.
In the NCDC data, Lagos has the highest number of infections with 348 cases. Rivers 70, while Akwa Ibom comes next with 45 infections.
Others were Oyo (36), FCT (24 ), Ekiti (15), Kwara (7), Ogun (7), Gombe (3), Anambra and Kaduna reported 2 cases each, while Bayelsa, Cross River, Edo, Plateau, Kano and Sokoto registered one case respectively.
The NCDC said that Nasarawa, Ondo, and Osun reported zero cases as of Friday.
The agency stated the country had confirmed 177,142 cases, noting that 2,178 people had died in 36 states and the FCT.
The NCDC said a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
It said the country had also tested more than 2.5 million samples for the virus out of the country’s roughly 200 million population.
The NCDC said the country’s COVID-19 average test positivity rate was 6 percent.
