Nigeria records 1,664 new COVID-19 cases, highest daily infections
Nigeria recorded 1,664 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest daily infections in the country, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said. This brings the total infections to 94,369 as at Wednesday night. More Nigerians die as COVID-19 bites harder Nigerians to pay for national ID renewal, corrections — NIMC The NCDC made […]
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Nigeria recorded 1,664 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest daily infections in the country, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said.
This brings the total infections to 94,369 as at Wednesday night.
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The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday.
The daily increase was a new record and considerably higher than Tuesday’s 1,354 confirmed cases.
NCDC said that 22 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded the new infections with Lagos having the highest number of cases with 642.
The FCT, the centre said, recorded 407 new cases while Plateau recorded 160 new cases.
Also, it said Kaduna State recorded 83 new infections while Rivers State recorded 62.
Others state are: Adamawa-47, Nasarawa-38, Abia-29, Edo-28, Anambra-27, Niger-24, Ogun-24, Imo-15, Oyo-14, Kano-12, Osun-12, Borno-nine, Delta-seven, Enugu-seven, Bauchi-five, Ekiti-five, Sokoto-five and Jigawa-two.
The centre also said that Nigeria have recorded 77,299 recoveries and 1,318 fatalities.
The NCDC said that there are now 14,990 active COVID-19 cases.
The cenre, however, said that in the last 24 hours, 903 recoveries were recorded.
It noted that the discharges included 388 community recoveries in Lagos State, 261 in Kaduna State, 87 in Plateau State and 20 in Imo managed in line with its guidelines.
The NCDC also said that Nigeria recorded five deaths in the past 24 hours.
The agency has said that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre, activated at Level III, is coordinating response activities nationwide.
From February 27, 2020 till date, only 980,046 samples of suspected infected people had been tested in a population of more than 200 million people.
The country also approved 70 public, seven corporate and 32 commercial laboratories across the country with varying testing capacities. (NAN)