Nigeria, May 4 -- Nigeria on Monday recorded 18 new cases of COVID-19. The new cases were recorded in five states.

The new figure raised the total number of infections in the country to 165,199, an update published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Monday night indicates.

According to the update, no new death was recorded from the virus which has already claimed 2,063 lives in the country.

This makes it the fifth consecutive day that nobody died from the disease in the country.

The number of deaths recorded from the virus has declined with only two deaths recorded in the last 20 days.

The 18 new cases were reported in five states: Lagos-8, FCT-6, Edo-2, Rivers-1 and Ogun-1.

A breakdown of the latest data shows that 10...