The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced that Cross River on Monday recorded five new cases.

With the spread of the virus to Cross River, all 36 states and the FCT now account for the 29, 286 confirmed cases.

The NCDC put the death toll at 654 and the number of discharged patients at 11,828.

According to a post by the NCDC on its official twitter handle, Lagos recorded the highest figures -123; FCT (100); Delta (58); Edo (52); Ogun (42); Katsina (24); Bayelsa (23); Rivers (22); Borno (19); Plateau and Ondo (18 each); Oyo (17); Kwara (15); Osun (13); Enugu (nine); Nasarawa (seven); Abia (six); Cross River (five); Kaduna (three) and Ekiti (one).