By As Nigeria battles the second wave of the pandemic, the total number of coronavirus cases in the country have surpassed 90,000.
This was disclosed on Sunday night by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC).
The agency reported about 917 new cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 90,080.
Nine additional deaths from COVID-19 was also reported.
The 917 new cases were reported from 17 states as follows: FCT (222), Lagos (214), Kaduna (119), Plateau (92), Nasarawa (50), Oyo (41), Adamawa (33), Ondo (32), Abia (28), Ogun (19), Rivers (17), Kano (16), Yobe (14), Edo (8), Anambra (6), Ekiti (5) and Jigawa (1).
The FCT led with 222 new cases followed by Lagos with 214 new infections on Sunday.
Nigeria has conducted over 950,000 COVID-19 tests, so far.
