Nigeria's tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country exceeded 6,000 on Monday as 216 newly infected people were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
As of the time of reporting, the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria rose to 6, 175 on Monday evening from 5, 959 reported on Sunday evening.
These are Lagos, Katsina, Oyo, Kano, Edo, Zamfara, Ogun, Gombe, Borno, Bauchi, Kwara, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kaduna, Enugu, and Rivers states.
The details of the 216 new cases are as follows: Lagos - 74, Katsina - 33, Oyo - 19, Kano - 17, Edo - 13, Zamfara - 10, Ogun - 8, Gombe - 8, Borno - 8, Bauchi - 7, Kwara - 7, FCT - 4, Kaduna - 3, Enugu - 3, and Rivers - 2.
A breakdown of the 6,175 confirmed cases shows that Lagos State has so far reported 2, 624 cases, followed by Kano - 824, FCT - 422, Katsina - 281, Bauchi - 222, Borno - 223, Jigawa - 201, Ogun - 153, Kaduna - 145, Oyo - 137, Gombe - 134, Sokoto - 113, Edo - 108, Zamfara - 84, Kwara - 65, Osun - 42, Rivers - 53, Plateau - 35, Yobe - 32, Kebbi - 32, Nasarawa - 31, Delta - 27, Niger - 22, Adamawa - 21, Ondo - 20, Ekiti - 19,Akwa Ibom - 18, Taraba - 17, Enugu - 15, Ebonyi - 9, Imo - 7, Bayelsa - 6, Benue - 5, Anambra - 5 and Abia - 5.
The number of new cases in the country has continued to increase erratically across all States which have reported at least a case of the virus.
