The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Saturday, has announced that the country has recorded 438 fresh cases of coronavirus in the country.
This was revealed in a tweet on the centre’s official Twitter handle.
The report stated that the country now has discharged a total of 16,948 patients after they had tested negative for the virus. Meanwhile, the deaths saw an increase, as a total of 856 fatalities have now been recorded.
The total number of confirmed cases in the country is now 23 shy of 40,000.
“438 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-123 Kaduna-50 Rivers-40 Edo-37 Adamawa-25 Oyo-20 Nasarawa-16 Osun-15 Enugu-15 FCT-14 Ekiti-13 Ondo-13 Ebonyi-11 Katsina-10 Abia-9 Delta-8 Kwara-4 Ogun-3 Cross River-3 Kano-3 Bauchi-3 Yobe-2 Sokoto-1 Niger-1″