Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 1,861 new coronavirus cases bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 126,160.

The latest numbers were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for disease control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle.

The NCDC also said the country now has a total of 100,365 recoveries out of its 126,160 confirmed cases leaving it with 24,252.

Lagos topped the list of infections with 773 cases followed by the Federal Capital Territory Abuja with 285 cases.

Oyo State had 138 cases, Rivers – 111, Plateau -92, Nasarawa -83 and Kaduna-59. Others are Enugu -57, Imo-57, Edo-43, Kano-27, Kwara-20, Ebonyi-19, Abia-17, Ogun-12, Osun-12, Katsina-8, Bayelsa-6, Bauchi-5, Delta-5, Borno-4, Jigawa-4, and Zamfara-1.