Nigeria on Sunday recorded 520 COVID-19 infections, lowest  since the beginning of the second wave in December 2020.

The low figure occurred largely because no data was included from Lagos, the epicentre of the disease in Nigeria, which on Saturday recorded almost a third of the day’s total.

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) offered no explanation for the non-inclusion of data from Lagos.

A similar situation has occurred twice this year with NCDC saying Lagos State health authorities did not turn in samples.

States mainly manage the testing process for corona virus while the NCDC coordinates and announces daily reports from the states.

Lagos remains the epicentre with nearly 50,000 infections and about 370 deaths so far.

The new nationwide figure of 520 on Sunday brings Nigeria’s infection tally to 146,184.

Five fatalities were reported on Sunday compared to the 37 deaths recorded between Friday and Saturday.

A total of 1,752 people have now died from the highly infectious disease.

More than 23,500 patients are still bedridden receiving treatment for COVID-19 in hospitals across the nation.

Meanwhile, a total of 120,838 people have recovered after treatment out of the over 146,000 infected.

The 520 new cases were reported from 19 states – Ondo (120), Borno (41), Ebonyi (37), Benue (33), Plateau (30), FCT (29), Nasarawa (25), Ogun (25), Edo (24), Osun (24), Katsina (22), Kaduna (21), Niger (20), Kwara (14), Ekiti (13), Yobe (10), Oyo (4), Bayelsa (1), and Jigawa (1).

Ondo led in Sunday’s tally with 120 new cases followed by Borno with 41.