The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced six hundred and thirty-one (631) confirmed new cases of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19 in the country.

The NCDC confirmed this on Friday in an early-morning Facebook post while giving an update on the outbreak of the disease in the country.

Of the new cases reported on September 2, Lagos reported the highest cases of 172 – representing about 27 per cent of the total single-day tally.

Others are Oyo – 93, Rivers – 72, Edo – 63, Kastina – 29, Abia – 26, FCT – 23, Kano – 23, Bayelsa – 20, Ogun – 20, Ekiti – 18, Anambra – 16, Delta – 16, Osun – 14, Imo – 11, Benue – six, Enugu – four, Jigawa – two, Niger – two, and Nasarawa – one.

Since the country recorded its first cases in February 2020, the NCDC has confirmed a total of 193,644 cases from the 2,779,725 tested so far.

Of the figure, 179,249 people who tested positive to the disease have recovered and have been discharged while the nation’s death toll stands at 2,488.