The death toll from the corona virus in Nigeria has hit the 1000 mark, according to statistics from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control NCDC.

On Sunday night, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), announced 322 new COVID-19 cases in the country.

The cases were from 18 states: Lagos (130), Bauchi (36), FCT (25), Edo (17), Bayelsa (14), Ogun (14), Oyo (14), Anambra (13), Kaduna (12), Ondo (11), Abia (10), Osun (6), Plateau (5), Kwara (5), Kano (4), Ebonyi (3), Sokoto (2) and Borno (1).

It brought the total to 52,227.

Of that number, 38,945 cases have been discharged and 1,002 deaths have been recorded.