By GRACE AUDU, Abuja –
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), announced on Friday it recorded 1,114 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) from 19 states of the Federal including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),
This is contained in an update on the official twitter handle of the health agency, @NCDCgov tweeted in the late hours of Friday.
According to the NCDC, the highest figure of 408 cases was recorded in Lagos, followed by the FCT with95, Plateau-90, Ondo-66, Kaduna-63 and Oyo-56.
The rest came from Borno-46, Imo-42, Edo-41, Ogun-37, Rivers-31, Ekiti-25, Yobe-20, Kano-18, Akwa Ibom-18, Delta-15, Osun-15, Kwara-11, Bayelsa-6, Nasarawa-6, Zamfara-4 and Bauchi-1.
This came as Ethiopia registered 771 new cases of the Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 136,365, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Friday.
The death toll from COVID-19 in the country reached 2,087 as of Friday evening, after two new deaths were reported, the ministry said.
The ministry added that 127 more recoveries were logged during the past 24 hours, taking the national count to 121,987.
Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation afterNigeria, is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in Africa, after South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt.
The country has so far reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the East African region.
The Ethiopian government has been urging the public to implement COVID-19 precautionary measures so as to contain the spread of the virus.
The East African nation has conducted 1,949,344 COVID-19 tests, including 7,011 new tests during the last 24 hours, said the ministry.
COVID-19 tests conducted in Ethiopia are among the highest in Africa, mainly next to South Africa and Morocco, according to recent figures from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
(With additional report by Xinhua/NAN)
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