On Monday, January 19, Nigeria recorded 1,617 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the country’s total infection to 112,004 cases.
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, 14 person also died from the COVID-19 complications.
Nigeria has now recorded 112,004 COVID-19 infections with 89,939 cases successfully treated and discharged and 1,449 fatalities.
Almost half of Monday’s cases were recorded in Lagos, with 776 infections.
Other states with new cases include Kaduna-147,,wara-131, FCT-102, Plateau-78, Edo-59 ,Ogun-53, Osun-45, Rivers-37, Taraba-36 Nasarawa-34, Adamawa-33, Kano-26, Delta-20, Ebonyi-16, Bayelsa-11, Gombe-11, and Borno-2.
Nigeria has witnessed a surge in new cases since last December when the federal government announced a second wave of the pandemic.