By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja –
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday said the country’s total COVID-19 infections had Jumped to 188,243 cases.
The NCDC said this via its verified website on Wednesday morning and that the additional 655 infections, reported on Tuesday, raised the country’s total infections.
As at Tuesday, August 24, the public health agency also reported 5 more COVID-19 related deaths, leaving the country’s fatality figure to 2,281.
The Public Health agency noted that the number of the country’s active Covid-19 infections had again risen to 16,927, an increase from 16,494 reported on Monday.
The agency did not indicate if majority of the known active cases were from the contagious Delta variant.
The Disease Control agency, however, stated that over 2,727,834 million samples of the virus out of the nation’s roughly 200 million population were tested.
The NCDC stated that the new cases were reported in eight states and the FCT.
“Lagos state, the country’s epicentre now witnessing an increase in the use of oxygen for the management of severe COVID-19 patients at isolation facilities, reported 288 additional Infections on Tuesday.
“Rivers, one of the country’s hotspots area for the delta variants recorded 188 cases on Tuesday, followed by Oyo – 64; Akwa Ibom – 31; FCT – 28; Ekiti – 21; Edo – 17; Bayelsa – 11; and Kaduna – 7.
It said that the country had now successfully treated 169, 035 COVID-19 cases following the discharge of 217 additional people on Tuesday”.
The NCDC added that the multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
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