COVID-19: Lagos and Gombe tops the list as Nigeria records 162 new cases

Nigeria’s daily count of COVID-19 recoveries dropped to a record low on Saturday with 106 patients discharged.

According to the breakdown of new cases, Lagos topped the list with 53 infections, followed by Gombe with 21 and Oyo with 19.

However, three more people were confirmed to have died of COVID-19 complications on Saturday, increasing the country’s fatality toll to 1,054.

Out of more than 420,000 samples now tested across Nigeria, a total of 54,905 have been confirmed positive, but 10,929 are active cases.