By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja-
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday announced that it has registered 123 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 169,329 confirmed cases.
As at Friday, 17 July, 2021, the public health agency recorded no COVID-19-related deaths, leaving the total fatalities in Nigeria to 2,126 deaths.
The NCDC made this know in an update via its official website, https://www.ncdc.gov.ng, noting that the 154 new cases were reported from 8 states, including: – Lagos (70), Akwa Ibom (18), Ogun (10), Oyo (8), Rivers (8), Ekiti (4), FCT (4), Bayelsa (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 169,329 confirmed cases, out of which 164,672 Covid-19 patients have been discharged.
The NCDC further noted that there were now 2,531 active cases across the country in the last 24 hours and it has so far carried out sample test on 2,362,757 persons since the outbreak of the pandemic, last year.
A multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continues to coordinate the national response activities