Nigeria on Sunday August 23 recorded 322 new cases of Coronavirus as confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). 

The agency gave a breakdown of the new cases across states as follows; Lagos-130, Bauchi-36, FCT-25, Edo-17, Bayelsa-14, Ogun-14, Oyo-14, Anambra-13, Kaduna-12, Ondo-11, Abia-10, Osun-6, Plateau-5, Kwara-5, Kano-4, Ebonyi-3, Sokoto-2, Borno-1. 

There are now 52,227 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the country and 1002 deaths have been recorded. 38,945 patients who recovered from the disease have also been discharged.