Health officials have confirmed via its official Facebook page that the Nigeria has added additional 24 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday.

Sunday's case count is up from the 40 infections reported on Saturday.

It also announced that in the same period, 20 coronavirus patients recovered and were discharged on Sunday, while no death were recorded for the nineth consecutive days.

The data showed that the country’s active COVID-19 cases stand at 2,385

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on the latest update on its social media page, noting that the country’s total infection from the pandemic currently stands at 254,525, while 3,142 people have died from COVID-19 related complications and 249, 013 patients have recovered so far.

NCDC stated that the new cases were reported in 6 states and the Federal Captital Territory.

A breakdown of the NCDC data revealed that Abia State reported the highest figure of seven cases out of new infections, followed by Lagos, Edo and FCT with six, four, three cases respectively.

Kaduna reported two cases, Osun and Rivers state reported one case each.

While Ekiti, Kano, Nasarawa, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Plateau, and Sokoto reported no cases of the virus on Sunday, NCDC said.