Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, recorded 438 new cases of novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), worldtopnewsng.com can confirm.
In an official tweet by the NCDC, Nigeria now has 39, 977 confirmed cases of the deadly virus as at Saturday.
Lagos State lead the way with a whopping 123 cases from the 438 new cases added on Saturday.
As at 23:56 on Saturday, Nigeria had recorded 16, 948 recoveries and a total of 856 dead cases so far.