The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed 601 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday.
The latest cases bring the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country to 51,905 with 38,767 discharged and 997 deaths.
The Centre on its official twitter handle @NCDCgov shows the breakdown of the latest confirmation.
Lagos, the country’s COVID-19 epicentre, reported the highest number of cases with 404, while the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) posted 37 new infections.
Other regions with new cases include Oyo-19, Ondo-14, Abia-13, Enugu-13, Kaduna-13, Edo-12, Kano-12, Kwara-11, Ebonyi-10, Nasarawa-7, Ogun-6, Osun-5, Delta-5, Niger-5, Plateau-4, Bayelsa-4, Katsina-3, Ekiti-2, and Imo-2.
The NCDC reported one new death on Saturday, bringing the country’s death toll to 997; confirmed cases rose to 51,905, out of which 38,767 patients have recovered.
