Nigeria’s Covid-19 infections jumped to an all-time high, with a total of 1,867 new cases reported within 24 hours.
The new numbers brought the country’s total to 107,345 infections, according to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
NCDC said in Tweet late Friday that eight people also died from the infect ion, which raised total deaths from the virus in the country to 1,413.
The new cases were reported from 23 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Lagos State reported 713 infections, Plateau, 273; FCT, 199; Kaduna, 117; and Oyo, 79. Also read: 4th Mainland Bridge: Preferred Bidders to emerge in Q3’21 Other were Enugu-58, Ondo-53, Kano-49, Sokoto-43, Ogun-37, Osun-37, Nasarawa-36, Rivers-28, Benue-24, Delta-24, Niger-24, Gombe-18, Edo-15, Taraba-12, Bayelsa-10, Ekiti-9, Borno-6, Zamfara-2 and Jigawa-1.
NCDC said a total of 705 patients were treated successfully and recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours, adding that the number of recovered patients had risen to 84,535.
It noted that “our discharges today include 277 community recoveries in Lagos State, 150 in Kaduna and 78 in Plateau, managed in line with guidelines.”
According to the centre, a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, is coordinating response activities nationwide. Meanwhile, it declared that the new highly transmittable variant of the COVID-19 had not been detected in the country. It explained that the centre was able to determine the absence of the new COVID-19 variant in the country through genomic sequencing is conducted in partnership with African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases and the Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State.
“Viruses mutate, the emergence of new variant strains of COVID-19 isn’t news. “Genomic sequencing in Nigeria shows no evidence yet of variants associated with the increased transmission, but we’re looking,” it said. The NCDC, however, said it would not relent in its disease surveillance efforts.
