By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja –
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday said the country has recorded a total of 505 new covid-19 cases, amidst the spread of the contagious delta variant.
The new infections recorded, however, indicate an increase from the 404 cases announced a day earlier.
In an update via its official website: www.ncdc.gov.ng, the public health agency put the country’s COVID-19 toll at 175,264, while 3 deaths were recorded on Tuesday raising the total number of fatalities in the country to 2,163.
According to the NCDC, the fresh infections were recorded in 13 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“Lagos State, the country’s epicentre, reported 273 new cases and followed by Rivers with 83.
Oyo recorded 45; Ondo 22; Cross River 18; Kaduna 13; Ogun and Gombe reported 10 each”.
“Eight new infections were reported in the FCT, seven in Ekiti; Delta recorded six; Bayelsa had three; Edo two and Niger had one”.
It stated that 85 people have recovered from the infection and were on Tuesday discharged from various isolation centres across the country. While 165,122 recoveries have been recorded nationwide.
It said that a multi-sectoral National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continues to coordinate the national response activities.
The NCDC noted that Nigeria had also tested more than 2.5 million people for COVID-19 out the country’s roughly 200 million people.
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