The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday night, announced 423 new confirmed COVID-19 cases.
The new cases were reported from 22 states: Lagos (117), FCT (40), Ondo (35), Rivers (28), Osun (24), Benue (21), Abia (19), Ogun (19), Ebonyi (18), Delta (17), Kwara (17), Kaduna (15), Anambra (14), Ekiti (11), Kano (9), Imo (6), Gombe (4), Oyo (3), Taraba (3), Bauchi (1), Edo (1) and Nasarawa (1).
It brought the total in the country to 47,290.
Out of that number, 33,609 patients have been discharged and 956 deaths have been recorded.
Lagos still has the highest number of cases with 16,074, while Kogi has reported only five.
Last week, President Muhammadu Buhari extended the second phase of the eased lockdown by another four weeks.
