Kano State recorded 118 coronavirus cases in two days reports.
According to data obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, the state recorded 38 cases on Wednesday and 80 on Thursday.
The NCDC also said the state had recorded a total of Kano 219 cases with three deaths.
The increase in cases came three days after COVID-19 tests resumed in the state.
Since Nigeria recorded its index case on February 27, Kano has discharged no patients.
The NCDC said Kano’s new 80 COVID-19 cases were part of the 204 infections recorded in the country on Thursday.
71 per cent of the COVID-19 cases in Nigeria were recorded in Lagos, Abuja and Kano.
Lagos has the highest cases of COVID-19 with 976 infections followed by Kano, which has 219 cases and Abuja with 178 cases.
Meanwhile, the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Saturday, announced the relaxation of lockdown order by six hours each on Mondays and Thursdays as a window to ease the total lockdown in the state.