By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja-
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday said it has registered 86 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 161,737.
As at Sunday (21st, March 2021), the public health agency recorded no COVID-19-related deaths, leaving the total fatalities in Nigeria to 2,030 deaths.
The NCDC made this know in an update via its official Twitter handle @NCDCgov, said
the 86 new cases are reported from 7 states- FCT (33), Lagos (28), Ondo (11), Kano (7), Akwa Ibom (3), Rivers (3), and Kaduna (1).
It added that with the new cases, the total number of confirmed infections since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country had risen to 161,737 confirmed cases, out of which 147,899 had been discharged
The Public Health Agency aslo noted that it has also recorded 29 community recoveries in Lagos State managed in line with guidelines.
The NCDC said that there were now 11,808 active cases across the country in the last 24 hours and it has so far carried out sample test on 1,727,467 persons since the outbreak of the infection last year.
It also said that a multi-sector national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, is coordinating response activities Nationwide.