Infograph showing latest Covid-19 update in Nigeria
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja-
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday said it has registered 66 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 163,063.
As at Friday (2nd April, 2021), the public health agency recorded no COVID-19-related deaths, leaving the total fatalities in Nigeria to 2,058 deaths.
The NCDC made this know in an update via its official Twitter handle @NCDCgov, noting that The 66 new cases are reported from 10 states- Enugu (18), Lagos(17), Kaduna (10), Rivers (8), Akwa Ibom (6), Kano (2), Osun (2), Jigawa (1) Plateau (1) and FCT (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 163,063 confirmed cases, out of which 151,835 had been discharged.
The NCDC said that there were now 9,170 active cases across the country in the last 24 hours and it has so far carried out sample test on 1,767,694 persons infection last year.
It also said that a multi-sector national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, is coordinating response activities Nationwide.