The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday night confirmed 462 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 43,151.
The new figure is 19 lowers than the 481 cases recorded on Thursday.
The agency announced via its verified Twitter handle that only one fatality was recorded from the virus in the past 24 hours bringing the total number of confirmed deaths from the virus to 879.
This is the first time in July that the country will record less than two fatalities in its daily death tally.
A total of 462 new samples tested positive in 15 states and the federal capital territory (FCT) on Friday, and for the second consecutive day, FCT topped the list with 93 new COVID-19 cases, followed by Lagos with 78 infections.
The other cases, according to the NCDC, were found in Plateau-64, Kaduna-54, Oyo-47, Ondo-32, Adamawa-23, Bauchi-19, Rivers-9, Ogun-9, Delta-9, Edo-7, Kano-6, Enugu-6, Nasarawa-5, and Osun-1.
With 295 patients discharged in the past 24 hours, a total of 19,565 people have now recovered from coronavirus infections across Nigeria.
Meanwhile, two more testing facilities were on Friday added to the NCDC’s molecular laboratory network.
These are the Molecular Diagnostics Lab at the Gombe State Specialist Hospital, and the United Nations IOM Lab, Abuja.
A total of 61 labs have now been activated within the NCDC network in 30 states and the FCT to carry out tests for COVID-19.
Kebbi, Zamfara, Niger, Bayelsa, Yobe and Taraba are the only states yet to have any NCDC-approved facility for COVID-19 testing.
