The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday said the country has recorded 471 COVID-19 infections as the total number of cases hits 178, 096, as at August 8, 2021.
The NCDC, which made this known via its website – www.ncdc.gov.ng, said the 471 additional infections were recorded in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It also highlighted Lagos and Akwa-Ibom as states leading the bulk of the nationwide surge.
It said the state with an ambitious plan to fight back the virus, reported the hghest infections of the day with 219 new cases and had continued to lead the country’s chart both in confirmed and active cases.
The public health agency stated that nearly half of the new COVID-19 Delta Variant infections nationwide were in Akwa Ibom, a situation that made the Federal Government to consider changing its vaccine distribution mechanism to hot spots.
The health institute added that the spike in cases had been pronounced in Akwa Ibom.
It noted that though the state had seen the highest rate of new infections in the past two weeks it, however, registered 102 cases.
Others included; Ondo (37), Oyo (33), Kwara (19), Rivers (16), Ekiti (15), Delta (14), Ogun (7), FCT (5), Niger (2), Edo (1) and Katsina (1).
It stated that 291 people had recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Saturday. The agency said that till date, 165,763 recoveries had been recorded nationwide in 36 states and the FCT.
The NCDC added that the country had also tested more than 2.5 million samples for the virus out of the country’s roughly 200 million population.
The health agency said two new deaths were recorded on Saturday raising the total number of fatalities in the country to 2,187.
The NCDC said a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
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