859 persons have caught the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria on Monday.
The country also lost two persons to the virus on the same day.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, stated on Tuesday that Monday’s figures raised the country’s infection tally to Two Hundred and Thirty Eight, Four Hundred and Twenty and the death toll to Three Thousand and Twenty-Four.
It stated that the two deaths were recorded in the FCT.
In Monday’s 859 infections, Lagos State took the lead with 555 victims up from the 401 infections it recorded on Sunday.
The FCT recorded 57 cases while Plateau recorded 26 cases.
Edo recorded 41 infections; Ondo State recorded 34; Kwara recorded 23; Kano recorded 18, Ogun 16 while Enugu recorded 11.
Oyo State recorded six infections; Delta five; while Bauchi and Bayelsa recorded three cases each.
The NCDC stated that the number of active cases in the country had increased to Twenty-Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Eighty Six as of Monday and that Two Hundred and Twelve Thousand, Seventy Hundred and Seventy victims had been treated and discharged from hospitals.
It added that Nigeria had tested Three Million, Eight Hundred and Twenty Three, Three Hundred and Nine samples since the virus was announced on February 27, 2020.
