Nigeria has recorded 163 more COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 60,266.

This was disclosed on Sunday night in a tweet by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)

The new cases were recorded in 11 states with Lagos having the highest figure of 113 cases.

Other states were Kaduna with 21, Osun with eight, Ondo and Oyo with five, Ogun with three, Bayelsa and Taraba with two, Edo, Katsina, Plateau, Katsina and FCT each having one case.

Of the 60,266 confirmed cases, 51,735 have recovered while 1,115 have died.