OFFOR CALLISTUS, Abuja –
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday announced that the country has recorded additional 317 COVID-19 cases.
The NCDC made this known on its website on Saturday morning, said the 317 infections recorded on July 23, took the country’s total coronavirus cases to 170,623 and 2, 131 casualties.
It would be recalled that the country’s COVID-19 cases have continued to rise for nine consecutive weeks, signaling the third wave of the deadly Delta variant.
According to NCDC, the 317 additional new cases were reported from 10 states and for Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“Lagos State where a majority of the cases were picked on Friday recorded 172, Akwa Ibom registered 62, Oyo announced 33, while Rivers, Ekiti, the FCT and Ogun recorded 32, 5, 5, and 3 each.
“Amongst others were Sokoto, reporting 2, while Bayelsa, Gombe and Kano, recorded one each,” it said.
The agency said the country’s active cases stood at 3,702 as of July 23.
It stated that eight people who had recovered from the disease had been discharged from isolation centres across the country.
The public health agency added that till date, 164,780 recoveries had been recorded nationwide in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The agency said the country had also tested more than 2.4 million samples for the virus out of the country’s 200 million population.
It added that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
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