Nigeria's capital city, FCT Abuja on Monday, recorded the highest new COVID-19 cases in the country as the country's total confirmed cases surpassed 37,000. According to the latest data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Abuja recorded 102 cases and Lagos had 100. The agency said in total the country recorded 562 fresh cases as of Monday, July, 20.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has yesterday recorded fresh 463 cases of the deadly coronavirus being the lowest in the last four days as the records show less than 500 in a single day. There were expressions of hope from some section of the society as this mark a decrease in the daily toll of the cases being recorded. Though, ten more persons were reported to have died as the result of the deadly COVID-19 complications pushing the fatality figure to now 754 in the country.

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has revealed yesterday that it has recorded an additional 571 new cases of coronavirus with additional 16 new deaths pushing the death toll to 740. With the new cases being on the rise, the Nigerian number of confirmed cases for the coronavirus has been pushed to 32,558 as at yesterday evening. Although careful examination of the pandemic has revealed there is a slight decrease when compared to that recorded on Saturday.