Nigeria on Saturday recorded six hundred and sixty-one, 661, new COVID-19 cases in the country.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed the development in a tweet on Saturday night.

The data released indicated that Lagos had 230 cases while Rivers followed with 127.

With this development, Nigeria now has a total of 19,808 confirmed cases of the infection and 506 deaths.

NCDC tweeted, “661 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria;

Lagos-230

Rivers-127

Delta-83

FCT-60

Oyo-51

Edo-31

Bayelsa-27

Kaduna-25

Plateau-13

Ondo-6

Nasarawa-3

Ekiti-2

Kano-2

Borno-1

“19,808 confirmed. 6,718 discharged.

“506 deaths.”