The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NAN) has announced 44 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 163,837.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday.

The new infections were registered from four states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the last 24 hours.

Enugu had the highest number of infections with 22 cases, followed by Lagos with 15, FCT 4, Osun 2 and Kaduna 1.

70 people were discharged from various isolation centres after testing negative to the virus in the last 24 hours.

Nigeria has tested 1,803,177 people since the first confirmed case of the COVID-19 pandemic was announced on February 27, 2020.