Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Saturday night announced 176 new cases of coronavirus codenamed Covid-19.
Surprisingly, Oyo state which had hitherto being recording low cases climbed up, recording 31 new cases in a day.
Also, 12 other states and FCT recorded fresh cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in Nigeria to 5,621 with 176 deaths.
The tweets by @NCDCgov reads: “176 new cases of #COVID19;
95-Lagos
31-Oyo
11-FCT
8-Niger
8-Borno
6-Jigawa
4-Kaduna
3-Anambra
2-Edo
2-Rivers
2-Nasarawa
2-Bauchi
1-Benue
1-Zamfara
5621 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 1472, Deaths: 176.”