Nigeria, Feb. 15 -- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has provided an update on Sunday's COVID-19 data which now includes figures from Lagos that was earlier omitted.

On Sunday night, the NCDC reported 520 new cases from 19 states for Sunday, the lowest daily figure since the beginning of the second wave in December 2020.

Five people also died from the disease on Sunday according to the agency, which indicated that there was no data from Lagos State, Nigeria's COVID-19 epicentre.

No reason was given by the NCDC for the non-inclusion of data from Lagos.

But the agency Monday evening released an update which now includes 170 new cases and one death from Lagos.

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