According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC, the nationwide death toll has now reached 3,110 and the total number of people infected with COVID-19 stand at 251,178, amid a gradual rebound in infections with the spread of the Omicron variant.

Nigeria has reported 249 fresh cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours in 14 states and the Federal Capital Territory, taking the total number of infections across the nation to 251,178 the health officials said on Monday.

NCDC said that the major increase in the number of cases were from Lagos, where the single day infections on Monday stood at 59 cases.

While Adamawa, Imo and FCT on Monday witnessed 46, 37 and 30 new cases of COVID-19.

Others states as follows Kwara-14, Rivers-13, Kaduna-10, Taraba-9, Cross River-8, Bauchi-7, Niger-5, Delta-4, Ogun-4, Nasarawa-2 and Kano-1.

Three states with zero cases reported: Plateau, Ondo and Osun.

NCDC noted that Monday's report includes 46 confirmed cases reported in Adamawa state on 13th January 2022.

Nine confirmed cases reported in Taraba state on 12th January 2022.

Five confirmed cases reported in Niger state on 16th January 2022.

The total number of coronavirus infected people who recovered from the disease has reached 224,629 after 577 patients were discharged from hospitals across the nation on Monday.

The recoveries includes 36 discharged cases reported in Taraba state on 12th January 2022, the state also announced 1 death linked to the virus same day.

Also, 214 discharged cases reported in FCT are for 17th January 2022 including 213 community discharges

Twelve community discharged cases reported in Imo state on 17th January 2022.

Five discharged cases reported in Adamawa state on 13th January 2022.

Across the nation, seven new deaths linked to COVID-19 were reported, while the number of severely ill coronavirus patients decreased by 335 from the previous day.

There are currently 23,439 active cases of COVID-19 across the nation. So far, 3,110 people have died of the viral infection across the nation.

As many as 59,637 samples were tested for coronavirus disease in the span of a week. A total of 3,992,846 tests have been conducted in the country since the pandemic started.