Nigeria has recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections in single day with 381 new cases on May 7, bringing the total to 3,526.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known in a tweet on Thursday night listing the 18 states responsible for the new number. No cases were recorded for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Lagos accounts for 183, Kano 55, Jigawa 44, Zamfara and Bauchi have 19 each.
For Katsina it is 11, Borno nine, Kwara eight, Kaduna seven, Gombe six, Ogun five, Sokoto four, Oyo and Rivers three, two in Niger and one each in Akwa-Ibom, Enugu and Plateau states.
There have been 601 recoveries with 107 deaths.