Four States have recorded index cases of coronavirus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC,raising the number of states that have confirmed at least one case of COVID-19 in the country to 33.

The NCDC announced this in a series of tweets early Monday morning

The newly affected States are Taraba in the North-East, Kebbi in the North-West, Ebonyi in the South-East, and Bayelsa in the South-South.

The index cases are part of the 91 new infections announced by the Centre in its latest update.

With total samples tested at > 10918, the NCDC noted that Taraba recorded six COVID-19 infections while Kebbi,

Ebonyi, and Bayelsa recorded one each.

Other states where new cases were reported include Lagos – 43, Kaduna – five, Gombe – five; the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) – three.

The rest are Bauchi – three, Ondo – three, Oyo – three, Edo – three, Rivers – three, Osun – two, Sokoto – eight, and Akwa Ibom – one.

This brings the figure of total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country to 1,273, with the death toll also rising to 40 while 239 people have been discharged.

The NCDC also revealed that Osun – two, Oyo – one, Rivers – one, and Katsina – one recorded new deaths