The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said that a total of 385 additional COVID-19 infections were recorded on Monday across 11 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
The NCDC announced this on its website on Tuesday morning, adding that two fatalities were recorded on Monday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Lagos State did not report the COVID-19 cases that it recorded on Monday to the agency.
This gave a distorted picture of the daily COVID-19 cases as the NCDC announced just 385 cases against the 612 on Sunday.
It is expected that Lagos would submit its data on Tuesday as backlog.
A similar scenario played out on December 10 when it reported 595 cases covering December 8 and December 9.
The NCDC said the 385 new cases were reported from the FCT with 116; Delta (115), Akwa Ibom (41), Ogun (33), Cross River (23), Edo (23), Kaduna (10), Rivers (7), Plateau (5), Bayelsa (5), Oyo (5), and Kano (2).
It stated that 116 cases reported for the FCT were for December 12, and 97 for December 13. 115 cases reported for Delta were backlogs from October 31; and 61 for November.
The rest are December 7 (4), December 8 (6), December 9 (5), December 10 (2), and December 12 (6).
According to the NCDC, till date, 217, 866 cases have been confirmed, with 210, 076 cases discharged and 2,982 deaths recorded in the country.
It also said that the country had a total of 4,566 active cases of COVID-19 undergoing treatment in various isolation centres across the nation.
Altogether, it stated that the country had conducted a total of 3,686,403 tests since the virus was announced on February 27, 2020.
The agency noted that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
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