Nigeria has a record of 2,308 COVID-19 deaths and 199, 333 infections as at Friday August 27 across all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. This is according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
It reported 10 additional COVID-19 related deaths, which increased the nation’s fatalities to 2,308
It announced these figure on its verified website on Saturday morning, noting that the country logged in 618 additional COVID-19 infections on Friday, adding to the recent surge in infections driven by the spread of the Delta variant in the country.
The 618 fresh cases reported on Friday marked a drop from the 835 cases reported the previous day. The fresh cases were reported from 15 states of the federation.
The Public Health agency noted that the number of the country’s active coronavirus infections had again risen to 18,210, an increase from 17, 210 reported on Wednesday .
The NCDC did not indicate if majority of the known active cases were from the contagious Delta variant, or other variants of concerns to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Centre stated that the fresh 618 cases were reported from across 15 states of the federation.
“Lagos state reported 312, a rise from the 217 cases of the previous day Thursday, Akwa Ibom recorded 89 fresh cases, a rise from the 11 cases it reported the previous day, while Edo posted 71 cases, a rise from the 45 cases of the previous day.
“Others were; 47 in Rivers, 20 each in Ekiti and Plateau, 15 in Delta, 13 in Kwara, 11 in the FCT, 8 in Osun, 4 in Oyo, 3 each In Ogun and Benue, 1 each in Gombe and Kaduna, respectively”, it stated.
The NCDC added that over 2.7 million samples of the virus out of the nation’s roughly 200 million population were tested, while 169,815 cases were successfully treated with 189 additional people discharged on Friday.
Meanwhile, the multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at level 2, had continued to coordinate the national response activities, the NCDC said.
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