Nigeria Centre for Disease Control -NCDC says 162 new cases of the novel coronavirus was recorded on Saturday.
This is made known on the Health Agency twitter handle.
The 162 cases reported were from 15 States with Lagos having 53 and followed by Gombe with 21 new infections.
Other states with new cases include Oyo -19, Delta -12, Ondo -11, Plateau -10, Ebonyi -9, FCT -6, Kwara -6, Kaduna -5, Rivers -3, Ogun -2, Anambra -2, Imo -2, and Ekiti -1.
According to NCDC, Total confirmed cases now stood at 54,905, active cases is 10,859 while the discharged is 42, 922 with 1,054 deaths as at Saturday, September 5, 2020.