Nigeria recorded 745 coronavirus, the single highest in one day in the country.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) which announced this via its Twitter on Thursday also stated that 344 patientswere discharged from isolation centres across the country with five new deaths reported.
Lagos State, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria, topped the number of confirmed cases with 280 new cases taking the total number of confirmed cases in Lagos alone to 7,896.
Other cases show: Oyo-103, Ebonyi-72, FCT-60, Imo-46, Edo-34, Delta-33, Rivers-25, Kaduna-23, Ondo-16, Katsina-12, Kano-10, Bauchi-8, Borno-7, Kwara-5, Gombe-4, Sokoto-2, Enugu-2, Yobe-1, Osun-1, and Nasarawa-1.
Till date, a total of 18,480 cases have been confirmed positive, 6,307 have been discharged while 475 deaths have been recorded.
