Nigeria on Saturday recorded six hundred and sixty-one, 661, new COVID-19 cases in the country.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed the development in a tweet on Saturday night.
The data released indicated that Lagos had 230 cases while Rivers followed with 127.
With this development, Nigeria now has a total of 19,808 confirmed cases of the infection and 506 deaths.
NCDC tweeted, “661 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria;
Lagos-230
Rivers-127
Delta-83
FCT-60
Oyo-51
Edo-31
Bayelsa-27
Kaduna-25
Plateau-13
Ondo-6
Nasarawa-3
Ekiti-2
Kano-2
Borno-1
“19,808 confirmed. 6,718 discharged.
“506 deaths.”