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.
