By Jumu’ah Abiodun
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has recorded 940 new cases of the novel COVID-19 pandemic within 24 hours worldtopnewsng.com can confirm.
In an official tweet by the NCDC, Nigeria now has 9, 855 confirmed cases of the deadly virus as at Saturday.
Lagos lead the way with a whopping 378 cases from the 553 fresh cases added on Saturday.
As at 23:55 on Saturday, Nigeria had recorded 2, 856 recoveries and a total of 273 dead cases so far.
553 new cases of #COVID19;
Lagos-378
FCT-52
Delta-23
Edo-22
Rivers-14
Ogun-13
Kaduna-12
Kano-9
Borno-7
Katsina-6
Jigawa-5
Oyo-5
Yobe-3
Plateau-3
Osun-19855 cases of #COVID19Nigeria
Discharged: 2856
Deaths: 273 pic.twitter.com/uIP0zHQeEE— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 30, 2020