The number of COVID-19 new cases in Akwa Ibom State in 24 hours has spiked to 52, the highest in one day, according to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
So far, the state has 667 Coronavirus confirmed cases, 236 persons have been admitted while 442 have been treated and discharged and nine persons had died.
Moreover, NCDC said Nigeria recorded 1,444 new cases in the country on Sunday.
On its official website late on Sunday, the public health agency said the country has tested 1,154,138 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19.
According to NCDC, the new infections have taken the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 110,387, which include 89,317 discharged cases and 1,435 deaths.
The agency said the 1,444 new cases were registered from 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the past 24 hours.
The health agency reported 15 COVID-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours.
Lagos, Plateau, and Kaduna recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections on Sunday, with 901, 136, and 57 cases respectively, according to NCDC.
Other states with new cases were FCT-54, Ebonyi-53, Akwa Ibom-52, Nasarawa-32, Osun-29, Ogun-28, Imo-16, Oyo-16, Edo-15, Kano-14, Rivers-10, Ekiti-7, Borno-6, Abia-5, Benue-4, Yobe-4, Kebbi-3, and Anambra-2.
It stated that 3,950 patients were discharged from isolation centres across the country after the second test result returned negative.
It added that the discharge included 717 community recoveries in Lagos State and a backlog of 2,825 community recoveries in FCT managed in line with guidelines.
NCDC said that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, was coordinating response activities nationwide.
