The new infections, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control's latest figures showed, were confirmed in 14 and the Federal Capital Territory, taking the total cases to 89,163.

Nigeria's COVID-19 epicentre, Lagos had the highest number of persons infected with the virus for the day under review with  277 fresh cases trailed by the FCT – 90; Oyo – 51; Nasarawa – 49; Sokoto – 23; Anambra – 14;  Bauchi – 11;  Imo – 11; Kano – 11; Edo – 10 and  Plateau -10.