Latest Covid-19 updates in Nigeria as at 17 April, 2021
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja-
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday announced that it has registered 60 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 164,207 confirmed cases.
As at Saturday, 17 April, 2021, the public health agency recorded no COVID-19-related deaths, leaving the total fatalities in Nigeria to 2,061 deaths.
The NCDC made this know in an update via its official Twitter handle @NCDCgov, noting that 60 new cases were reported from 9 states, including: – Lagos (22), Rivers (15), Bayelsa (7), Kaduna (5), Ogun (4), Akwa Ibom (3), Osun (2), Kano (1) and Ebonyi (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 164,207 confirmed cases, out of which 154,325 Covid-19 patients havebeen discharged.
The NCDC further noted that there were now 7,822 active cases across the country in the last 24 hours and it has so far carried out sample test on 1,838,174 persons since the outbreak of pandemic, last year.
It also said that a multi-sector national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, is coordinating response activities Nationwide.