Oyo State ranks fourth with 36 cases of COVID-19 infections out of the total 565 confirmed cases on Friday.
So far in Oyo, 7,315 cases had been confirmed with a total 364 hospitalized.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced that the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country had risen to 9,066.
NCDC records showed that as of Friday, the statistics for the total reported cases were from 16 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The data showed that Lagos ranked highest on the infections scale with 348 cases, while Rivers came next with distant 70 cases. Akwa Ibom came ahead of Oyo State with a total of 45 infections.
This is followed by FCT with 24 cases; Ekiti, 15; Kwara, 7; Ogun, 7; Gombe, 3. Anambra and Kaduna reported 2 cases each as Beyalsa, Cross River, Edo, Plateau, Kano and Sokoto had one case each.
According to NCDC, Nasarawa, Ondo and Osun reported zero cases as of Friday.
The NCDC verified website flagged the result on Saturday morning.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the country’s new active case indicates an increase with 9,033 cases, registered a day earlier.
The NCDC stated that 76 people had recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Friday.
The agency said that till date, 165,409 recoveries had been recorded nationwide in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
It added that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
It said that the country had also tested more than 2.5 million samples for the virus out of the country’s roughly 200 million population.
The NCDC put the country’s COVID-19 average test positivity rate at 6 per cent.
On August 6, 2021, three deaths were recorded in Nigeria.
