The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced 260 new coronavirus cases thereby increasing the country’s total infections to 12, 486.

This comes as the federal government raised alarm over rising number of cases compared to bed-spaces available for patients that are being treated for the disease.

The NCDC in a tweet on Sunday night said Abia State recorded the highest number of infections for the day in the country with 67 cases while the FCT and Lagos State had 40 and 38 cases respectively.

A further breakdown of the new cases showed that Ogun State has 19 infections, Gombe16, Edo14, Imo 9, Kwara 8 and Katsina 8.

Of the number of positive cases in Nigeria, 3959 persons have fully recovered and discharged with 354 deaths, according to the latest figure from the NCDC.