Nigeria health officials reported an increase in the number of people with COVID-19 in 8 states on Monday.

The health officials said 75 people are currently down with COVID-19, which is up from the 38 cases reported the previous day.

Officials also said no virus-related death were added to Nigeria's COVID-19 deaths toll over the past 24 hours.

With no fatalities on Monday, there have been a total of 3,141 COVID-19-related deaths in the nation since the start of the pandemic, according to the data released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC.

The nation deemed 60 more cases of the disease to be resolved as of Monday, bringing Nigeria's number of recovered patients up to 230,457.

Today's report brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Nigeria to 254,091.

Nigeria’s known, active COVID-19 caseload now stands at 254,091 down from 20,478 a day ago.

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with over 200 million population, have conducted 4,233,363 COVID-19 tests since February 2020, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced Monday.

The breakdown of the new cases as follows Lagos reported most of the cases – with 28 infections, followed by Akwa Ibom, the South-South state reported 18 cases and Ondo from southwestern reported 10 cases.

While Cross River from South-South reported 9 cases, Rivers in Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria reported 6 cases, Edo in the southern region reported 2 cases, Delta in South-South geopolitical zone and Kano in in the northern region of the country reported 1 case each.

NCDC noted that today’s report includes a backlog of 18 confirmed & 1 dischaged case reported for Akwa Ibom State from 7th - 13th February 2022

It also added that 8 states; Abia, Bauchi, Ekiti, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Nasarawa and Sokoto reported  zero cases of the virus on Monday.