Nigeria has recorded 24 additional deaths and 1,005 new cases of COVID-19.
This was according to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC update on Friday.
The NCDC via its Twitter handle noted that the new cases were recorded in 19 states of the federation.
Lagos the commercial centre of the country top of the list of the states with 204 fresh infections, followed by Kwara-155, Oyo-124, Plateau-80, FCT-75, Edo-56, Osun-48, and Ondo-41.
Kaduna and Rivers recorded 40 each, Taraba-35, Borno-32, Ekiti-21, Ogun-20, Kano-14, Bayelsa-8, Delta-7, Bauchi-3, and Jigawa-2.
The centre added that the nation has 144,521 confirmed cases, 118,866 total recoveries and 1,734 recorded deaths.