The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 170 new COVID-19 cases and three coronavirus related deaths in 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory in the last 24 hours.
The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Friday.
The public health agency said that the new confirmed figures bring the nation’s total number of COVID-19 infections to 62,691.
Agency reports stated that more than 620,758 samples have been tested by NCDC, out of which 62,691 were positive in the country.
The agency stated that 181 patients were successfully treated and have now been discharged from isolation centres across the country.
It also disclosed that Lagos State reported 106 cases of new infections, followed by FCT with 25 cases, Oyo had 14 cases. Edo and Kaduna reported 7 cases each, while Ogun had 4 cases.
Other states are Bauchi-2, Benue-2, Kano-1, Osun-1 and Rivers-1.
The public health agency said that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, continued to coordinate the national response activities.(NAN)