By Abujah Racheal
Nigeria has announced 575 new COVID-19 cases in the country as total infections from the virus rise to 33,153.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on its official twitter handle on Monday .
The NCDC said that the new confirmed cases as at July 13 was 595 while four deaths were recorded across the country.
The agency said that no new state had reported a case in the last 24 hours.
According to NCDC, till date, 33,153 cases have been confirmed, 13,671 cases have been discharged and 744 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
It stated that the 594 new cases were reported from 20 states.
The NCDC stated that 156 of the new cases were reported in Lagos, 141 in Oyo, and 99 in the FCT.
Others were Edo (47), Kaduna (27), Ondo (22), Rivers (20), Osun (17), Imo (13), Plateau (10), Nasarawa (8), Anambra (8), Kano (5), Benue (5), Borno (5), Ogun (4), Taraba (3), Gombe (3), Kebbi (1), and Cross River (1).