Nigeria on Monday confirmed 315 new cases of coronavirus, as the country’s total climbed to 12801.
Lagos led with 128 cases Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said in a tweet, while the FCT came second with 34, and Rivers State in the third position had 32.
Other states and their figures were Edo- 28, Oyo- 22, Kaduna- 20, Gombe-13, Ogun- 8, Plateau- 5, Delta- 7, Kwara- 7, Kano-5, Bauchi- 4, and Katsina-2.
NDCD said a total of 4040 patients had been discharged while 361 had died.
Globally, as of 4:00pm CEST, 8 June 2020, there had been 6,931,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 400,857 deaths, reported to WHO.