The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed 453 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday.
The latest cases bring the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country to 46,140 with 33,044 discharged and 942 deaths.
The Centre on its official twitter handle @NCDCgov shows the breakdown of the latest confirmation.
Data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control showed that the FCT led new cases for the day with 75, followed closely by the country’s pandemic epicentre Lagos with 71 cases.
Benue witnessed a spike in cases with 53 new infections reported, Delta and Borno saw 39 and 30 cases respectively with Enugu recording 25 new cases.
Plateau State saw 24 more cases, Osun – 20, Abia – 19, Oyo -17, Kaduna 16, while Kano and Ebony confirmed 13 new cases each.
Other states with new cases are Ogun – 9, Kwara – 7, Ondo – 6, Gombe – 3, Ekiti – 2, Akwa Ibom – 1, Rivers – 1.
