Nigeria on Monday recorded eight new deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, even as 565 persons tested positive for the infection.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, in an update shared on its Facebook page late Monday night, said the country’s fatality toll from the disease now stands at 2,276 from 2,260 reported a day earlier.
The disease centre said the latest figure of confirmed cases has increased Nigeria’s infection toll to 187,588 among which the active cases are 16,494.
The increasing number of the active cases from merely less than 2,000 in June has been linked to the Delta variant which has been described as the most transmissible variant of the infection.
A breakdown of the NCDC data revealed that Lagos State reported the highest figure of 205 cases while Rivers State in the South-south came second on the log with 73 infections and Ondo State recorded 63 to rank third.
The FCT and Oyo followed with 53 cases each while Ekiti State recorded 37, with Delta and Edo states closely following with 24 and 20 cases respectively.
Benue State reported 12 cases while Bayelsa, Kwara and Osun States recorded six cases each.
Ogun State recorded five cases to take the 13th position on the chart while Adamawa State from the North-east region recorded two cases as the state with the lowest number of cases for the day.
