With six more people confirmed dead on Tuesday, the total number of coronavirus deaths in Nigeria is now 98.
This is as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday said it has recorded 148 new infections, bringing the total to 2950.
The agency on its confirmed twitter handle on Tuesday night said that the 148 new cases were recorded from 16 states.
“43-Lagos, 32-Kano, 14-Zamfara, 10-FCT, 9-Katsina, 7-Taraba, 6 each in Borno and Ogun, 5-Oyo, 3 each in Edo, Kaduna and Bauchi, 2 each in Adamawa and Gombe, while one each in Plateau, Sokoto and Kebbi States,” it said.
According to NCDC, as of
The continuous increase in number of infections has risen due to the increased capacity for testing across the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that NCDC have continued the fight against the virus by activating its multi-partner, multi-sectoral Operations Centre (EOC) to coordinate response activities across states of the federation.
The National Rapid Response Team continues to support affected states. Surge RRT deployed to support Kano state response and engagement meeting with health professional association sustain the gains of the lockdown as easing commences.
NCDC has also continued to deploy medical commodities to affected states, planned continued mobilisation of resources and continued to establish surge capacities across all response pillars.
NAN reports that the pandemic is an ongoing public health emergency of international concern caused by the COVID-19 virus, first identified by health authorities in Wuhan, China.
At the moment, the pandemic is affecting 213 countries around the world including one international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship) harbored in Yokohama, Japan.
