By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja –
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control(NCDC) on Monday announced that the country has recorded 30 COVID-19 related deaths and 459 new COVID-19 cases in 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The NCDC added that the new cases posted on Sunday, showed a drop from the 964 infections posted on Saturday.
According to the public health agency, Lagos State led the infections chart with 185 cases, Abia and Oyo, 38 cases each.
Others are Akwa Ibom and Cross River (33), Osun (24), Ekiti (23), Benue (15), Kwara (14), Kano (12), Delta, and the FCT (10), Edo (nine), Kaduna (five), Ogun (three), Kastina, Nasarawa , and Rivers reported (two), each, while Bayelsa recorded(one).
The number of Nigeria’s active coronavirus infections, however, declined from 10,026 as reported on Saturday to 8, 429 on Sunday.
The NCDC said that over 2. 7million people have been tested for the virus out of the nation’s roughly 200 million population.
It added that So far, the countryrecorded 195, 511 cases of the virus since its outbreak in 2020. The centre also said that no fewer than 184,529 patients have been successfully treated and discharged.
The agency said that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level II, continues to coordinate the national response activities.