Nigeria on Saturday night recorded 438 fresh cases of COVID-19.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), stated this on its Twitter handle, adding that the fresh cases were recorded in 23 states of the federation and the FCT.
They noted that 11 people died from complications arising from the virus as at Saturday night, increasing the number of COVID-19 fatalities from 845 to 856.
Presently, the total number of confirmed cases has increased to 39,977, while 16,948 patients have been discharged from various isolation centres across the country by Saturday night.
The breakdown of the figures across states are: Lagos (123), Kaduna (50), Rivers (40), Edo (37), Adamawa (25), Oyo (20), Nasarawa (16), Osun (15), Enugu (15), FCT (14), Ekiti (13), Ondo (13) and, Ebonyi (11).
Others are – Katsina (10), Abia (9), Delta (8), Kwara (4), Ogun (3), Cross River (3), Kano (3), Bauchi (3), Yobe (2), Sokoto (1), and Niger (1).
