Covid-19: Infections In Nigeria Exceed 100,000
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria surpassed 100,000 on the 10th of January, after 1,024 new cases were reported, bringing the total number of infections to 100,087.
This was revealed on The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) verified website on Sunday.
The NCDC regrettably reported eight additional COVID-19-related deaths in the last 24 hours in the country.
The NCDC said the total number of deaths was now 1,358 and the case fatality rate was 1.5 per cent in the country.
The NCDC said the number of people who had recovered from the deadly virus is now 80,030.
“There are 613 COVID-19 patients discharged across Nigeria in the last 24 hours with the total number of successfully treated cases rising to 80,030.
“Our discharges today includes 253 community recoveries in Lagos State, managed in line with guidelines,” it stated.
The agency said 1,025,560 people had been tested for the virus since it was first detected in the country 11 months back, with 13,976 tests carried out in the past 24 hours.
The public health said that the 1,024 new cases were reported in 16 states and the FCT.
It added that Lagos State with 653 cases led the pack with Plateau and Benue following with 63 and 48 cases respectively, Zamfara-45, FCT-42, Rivers-27, Ondo and Adamawa-26 each.
Amongst other states with new COVID-19 cases are Kaduna-22; Edo-18; Ogun-16; Imo-12; Kano-9, Yobe-6, Ekiti-5, Jigawa-4and Osun-2.
