The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control recorded one death
and 272 coronavirus infections in Nigeria as of July 24.
The NCDC released the information on its website early on
Sunday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the latest
infections figure shows a decline, compared with 317 cases announced on July
23, an 18-week high in infections.
The public health agency said that COVID-19 related deaths
in Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country currently stood at 2,132 since the
pandemic hit the country.
The agency said that Nigeria had also tested more than 2.4
million samples for the virus out of the country’s population, estimated at 200
million.
It noted that Lagos State, Nigeria’s epi-centre of the
disease and economic hub, again recorded the highest number of new infections
with 182 confirmed cases.
Rivers, Nigeria’s oil capital, came a distant second with 34
positive samples and Ondo State coming third with 24 cases.
States that recorded fresh infections include Oyo State
(10), Abia (7), Ogun (7), Ekiti State (5), Delta (2) and Plateau (1).
NCDC disclosed that three states, including Kaduna, Kano and
Sokoto States recorded zero cases and that as at July 24, Nigeria’s COVID-19
active cases stood at 3,975.
The agency said that eight people were discharged on July 24
after recovering from the disease.
It noted that out of a total of 170,895 positive infections
confirmed across the country, 164,788 patients had been discharged.
According to the agency, a multi-sectoral national emergency
operations centre, activated at level 2, continues to coordinate national
response activities.
Meanwhile, the NCDC has alerted that COVID-19 infection rate
has worsened at entry points with 32 per cent rise in one week.
It disclosed that over 10,000 in-bound travellers from
overseas had shunned the compulsory COVID-19 testing and isolation after
arriving in Nigeria.
The travellers came into Nigeria through the premier Murtala
Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
in Abuja.
While over 9,000 in-bound Lagos travellers shunned testing,
no fewer than 1,000 in-bound Abuja passengers also shunned testing, according
to the NCDC.
(NAN)
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