The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 386 new cases, bringing the nation’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection to 43,537.
The NCDC made this known via its verified Twitter handle on Saturday.
The new figure is the lowest number of confirmed coronavirus infections in one month.
The latest update is slightly lower than the 462 cases recorded on Friday and the 481 infections reported found Thursday.
NCDC said 130 of the new infections were found in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, which has the second largest burden of the disease with 3, 933.
The records show that for third consecutive days, Abuja has topped the list of states with new cases in the country.
Lagos still retained its position as the epicentre of the disease with 15,186 even though it recorded only 65 cases in Saturday’s tally.
The remaining cases were recorded in Ondo (37), Osun (29), Plateau (23), Rivers (15), Enugu (14), Nasarawa (12), Bayelsa (11), Ebonyi (11), Ekiti (9), Oyo (8), Edo (8), Abia (6), Ogun (3), Katsina (3), Imo (1), and Adamawa (1).
Meanwhile, NCDC announced that recoveries have now exceeded 20,000.
The number of discharged patients increased from 19,565 to 20,087, while the fatality figure rose from 879 to 883.
With more than 280,000 samples tested across the country, 43,537 have been confirmed positive, out of which 22,567 are still active cases.
The breakdown of the 43,537 cases in different states is presented below:
| States Affected | No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) | No. of Cases (on admission) | No. Discharged | No. of Deaths |
| Lagos | 15,186 | 12,846 | 2,148 | 192 |
| FCT | 3,933 | 2,749 | 1,142 | 42 |
| Oyo | 2,768 | 1,404 | 1,337 | 27 |
| Edo | 2,300 | 375 | 1,842 | 83 |
| Rivers | 1,806 | 294 | 1,459 | 53 |
| Kano | 1,597 | 286 | 1,258 | 53 |
| Delta | 1,510 | 108 | 1,359 | 43 |
| Kaduna | 1,457 | 269 | 1,176 | 12 |
| Ogun | 1,397 | 234 | 1,140 | 23 |
| Plateau | 1,211 | 658 | 534 | 19 |
| Ondo | 1,192 | 519 | 648 | 25 |
| Enugu | 821 | 378 | 425 | 18 |
| Ebonyi | 796 | 53 | 718 | 25 |
| Kwara | 753 | 521 | 213 | 19 |
| Katsina | 745 | 265 | 457 | 23 |
| Borno | 613 | 9 | 569 | 35 |
| Gombe | 607 | 60 | 524 | 23 |
| Bauchi | 560 | 27 | 520 | 13 |
| Osun | 553 | 270 | 271 | 12 |
| Abia | 551 | 75 | 471 | 5 |
| Imo | 469 | 324 | 136 | 9 |
| Benue | 346 | 282 | 58 | 6 |
| Bayelsa | 339 | 39 | 279 | 21 |
| Nasarawa | 329 | 98 | 223 | 8 |
| Jigawa | 322 | 3 | 308 | 11 |
| Niger | 223 | 78 | 133 | 12 |
| Akwa Ibom | 221 | 64 | 150 | 7 |
| Adamawa | 164 | 70 | 85 | 9 |
| Sokoto | 154 | 1 | 137 | 16 |
| Ekiti | 141 | 74 | 65 | 2 |
| Anambra | 135 | 48 | 75 | 12 |
| Kebbi | 90 | 4 | 79 | 7 |
| Zamfara | 77 | 1 | 71 | 5 |
| Yobe | 67 | 5 | 54 | 8 |
| Taraba | 54 | 43 | 11 | 0 |
| Cross River | 45 | 33 | 9 | 3 |
| Kogi | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
