Nigeria witnessed a spike in COVID-19 cases on Saturday, recording more than 500 new single-day infections for the first time.
The new cases were confirmed by the specialist agency, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Twitter.
Lagos, the most hit State by the coronavirus pandemic, recorded 378 new cases, while FCT had 52.
This takes the country’s total infections to 9,855, out of which 2856 have been discharged with 273 losing their lives.
