The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed 438 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday.
The latest cases bring the total number of the confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country to 39,977 with 16,948 discharged and 856 Deaths.
The Centre on its official Twitter handle @NCDCgov shows the breakdown of the latest confirmation.
A breakdown of the new cases, confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease and Control, shows that Lagos recorded 123 new cases with Kaduna State trailing it with 50 cases.
Rivers State saw its infections rise by 40, Edo 37, Adamawa 25, and Oyo 20. Nasarawa State recorded 16 cases, while Osun and Enugu states recorded 15 cases each.
There were 14 new infections in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, 13 each in Ekiti and Ondo states, 11 in Ebonyi, 10 in Katsina, nine in Abia, eight in Delta, and four in Kwara.
Ogun, Cross River, Kano, and Bauchi states confirmed three more cases each, Yobe two, while Sokoto and Niger states had a case each.
So far, 16,948 of those infected in Nigeria have been discharged while 856 of the infected have, sadly, died with 22,173 others still battling the virus.
