Nigeria  confirmed 304 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Sunday.

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

 

Lagos topped the daily infections with 81 cases recorded. Others were FCT -39; Abia – 31; Kaduna -24; Rivers – 23; Plateau – 16; Cross River -13; Ebonyi – 12; Ondo –12; Ekiti -11; Edo – 11; Benue – 10; Nasarawa – 10; Ogun – 6 and Gombe – 5.

Of the 43,841 recorded infections, 20,308 have been discharged and 888 deaths have been confirmed.

The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide has surpassed 18 million.

The United States is the worst-hit country with 4,657,693 cases and 154,793 deaths.