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Nigeria Reports Two More COVID-19 Deaths, 385 Fresh Infections

  As Nigerian authorities battle the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, two more people died of complications relating to the disease on Monday. Advertisement … Continue reading Nigeria Reports Two More COVID-19 Deaths, 385 Fresh Infections


A file photo of a healthcare worker holding a COVID-19 test kit. TARSO SARRAF / AFP
A file photo of a healthcare worker holding a COVID-19 test kit. TARSO SARRAF / AFP

 

As Nigerian authorities battle the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, two more people died of complications relating to the disease on Monday.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in a Facebook post on Tuesday while giving an update on the outbreak of the disease in the country.

It noted that 385 new infections were confirmed in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), saying the nation’s capital reported 116.

Others are Delta – 115, Akwa Ibom – 41, Ogun – 33, Cross River – 23, Edo – 23, Kaduna – 10, Rivers – seven, Plateau – five, Bayelsa – five, Oyo – five, and Kano – two.

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This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 217,866 since the first COVID-19 case was reported in late February 2020.

Of the confirmed cases, 210,076 people have been discharged while 2,983 others have died from complications relating to the disease.

As of 9am on Friday, the NCDC said it has collected and tested a total of 3,686,403 samples for COVID-19.

According to the agency, the 116 cases reported in the FCT are for Sunday (17) and Monday (97) while the 115 cases reported for Delta are backlogs from October (31) and November (61), as well as December 7th (4), 8th (6), 9th (5), 10th (2), and 12th (6).

See the breakdown of cases by states below:

States Affected No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) No. of Cases (on admission) No. Discharged No. of Deaths
Lagos 80,599 890 78,953 756
FCT 23,895 383 23,288 224
Rivers 13,076 123 12,799 154
Kaduna 10,198 70 10,047 81
Plateau 10,007 58 9,876 73
Oyo 8,870 94 8,585 191
Edo 6,692 84 6,328 280
Ogun 5,450 74 5,296 80
Ondo 4,591 18 4,475 98
Kano 4,450 37 4,291 122
Akwa Ibom 4,389 -213 4,558 44
Delta 4,294 1,628 2,556 110
Kwara 4,004 231 3,709 64
Osun 3,036 13 2,937 86
Enugu 2,815 11 2,775 29
Gombe 2,757 28 2,669 60
Nasarawa 2,517 133 2,345 39
Anambra 2,405 0 2,386 19
Katsina 2,360 71 2,252 37
Imo 2,265 233 1,991 41
Ebonyi 2,062 26 2,004 32
Abia 2,044 11 2,002 31
Benue 1,907 370 1,512 25
Bauchi 1,817 18 1,776 23
Ekiti 1,787 17 1,742 28
Borno 1,356 12 1,306 38
Taraba 1,269 15 1,222 32
Bayelsa 1,261 17 1,216 28
Adamawa 1,157 27 1,098 32
Niger 1,073 55 998 20
Sokoto 810 0 782 28
Cross River 690 23 642 25
Jigawa 619 2 600 17
Yobe 502 3 490 9
Kebbi 470 0 454 16
Zamfara 367 4 354 9
Kogi 5 0 3 2