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Taraba Only State In Nigeria Yet To Report Death From COVID-19 – NCDC

File photo: A health worker takes a swab from a woman during a community COVID-19 coronavirus testing campaign in Abuja on April 15, 2020.  Kola Sulaimon / AFP

 

Despite the rising number of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria with 883 deaths,  Taraba is the only state in the country yet to record a single fatality from the virus.

Data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as of Saturday, August 1st, 2020, indicated that the West Africa country’s COVID-19 infections now stand at 43, 537 with 20,087 recoveries.

The country added 386 fresh cases of the virus on the first day of August with the total deaths from the disease 883, according to the agency.

Lagos State has the highest number of deaths (as of the time of this report) from the pandemic – 192 – followed by Edo State on 83 and Delta and Rivers states with  53 fatalities each.

Taraba, so far, has 54 cases of the virus, out of which 11 have been discharged, 43 persons on admission but no death reported.

Nigeria’s COVID-19 epicentre, Lagos has reported 192 deaths from 15,043 cases, the highest number of fatality in the country.

All Clear? 

On May 17th, Taraba state discharged all 17 active cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) receiving treatment after they tested negative twice.

 

A map pf Taraba, a state in Nigeria’s North-East region.

 

Governor Darius Ishaku confirmed this to reporters when he inspected a 100-bed space capacity isolation centre at the NYSC orientation camp in Sibre in Ardo-Kola Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.

No Testing Centre

The governor had also lamented the lack of a COVID-19 testing centre in the state, calling on the Federal Government to set up at least one testing centre in the area.

Although a lockdown was imposed on the state to curtail the spread of COVID-19, the government suspended the restriction of movement for residents for the Local Government Council elections held on June 30.

Return To Class

On Thursday and in line with the Federal Government’s directive, the Taraba government asked graduating students in secondary schools in the state to resume on August 4.

It explained that this was to enable the students to revise for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

Emmanuel Egobiambu

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