Nigeria has confirmed 653 new cases of Covid-19 known Coronavirus pandemic.
The latest on Saturday brings the confirmed cases of the virus to 36107 with 14938 Discharged and 778 Deaths.
On its official Twitter handle @NCDCgov, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, shows the breakdown of the latest cases.
The NCDC added that Lagos state reported the highest number of infections with 115 new cases, while Kwara reported 85 new infections.
Amongst others were Enugu with 80 cases and the FCT with 78. Rivers had 36 cases, Ondo – 35, Oyo – 30, Katsina – 28, Kaduna – 19, Abia – 19, Nasarawa – 18, Plateau – 17, and Imo – 16.
Four states, namely: Ogun, Ebonyi, Benue, and Kano reported nine more infections with Delta, Bauchi, and Ekiti having eight, seven, and six new cases respectively.
NCDC said that Gombe, Bayelsa, Adamawa, and Osun also recorded four more cases while a case of the virus was recorded each in Cross River, Yobe, Borno, and Zamfara states.
According to the centre, this brings the total number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in country to 36,107 out of the more than 200,000 tests conducted.
The health agency, however, said that 305 recovered patients were discharged from various isolation centres across the country after undergoing treatment.
According to it, Nigeria now has 14,938 recovered cases of COVID-19 with the death toll still at 778.
