Nigeria has recorded 298 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total amount of recorded cases in the country to 49,068.

The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle on Sunday night.

Plateau reported the highest number of new cases – 108, followed by Kaduna with 49 and Lagos with 47 recorded cases.

Others are Ogun – 18, Osun – 17, FCT – 15, Ondo – 14, Edo – eight, Oyo – six, Akwa Ibom – four, Cross River – four, Borno – three, Ekiti – two, while Bauchi, Kano, and Rivers reported one case each.