Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says 828 is the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria for Saturday.
NCDC who made this known on it’s website in its recent update on COVID-19 said the cases were recorded in 14 states.
The Agency said Rivers State had the highest number of cases with 188 infections confirmed in the state.
others include Lagos (183), Delta (97), FCT (82), Oyo (67), Edo (54), Ekiti (34), Plateau (34), Kano (27), Anambra (22), Kaduna (19), Enugu (12), Ogun (5), and Kwara (4).
With the latest confirmed cases, the total cases for the country now stood at 223,483, 211,522 cases have been discharged and 2984 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The 828 new cases show the surge in the number of cases in the country maintained. On Friday, 1,584 new infections were recorded, the highest cases ever in 10 months.
