Rivers State took the lead in the country’s COVID-19
infections as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control logged 828 new infections
on Saturday.
The Rivers state capital, Port Harcourt, a metropolis that
is considered the commercial center of the Nigerian oil industry, registered
188 infections out of the 828 declared on Saturday by the agency.
The NCDC made this known on Sunday via its official website,
saying that the 188 infections from Rivers indicated a decrease of 29
infections, from 217, recorded on Friday.
Rivers, the third most hit state by the virus in the
country, had more cases than Lagos state, the country’s epicenter of the
pandemic, with an estimated population of between 17.5 million and 21 million
as of 2020.
Lagos State logged 183 cases, a big fall compared to the 906
reported on Friday.
The NCDC indicated that the 97 cases reported by Delta state
on Saturday aggregated the cases recorded from Dec. 7– 17, 2021.
Amongst others states that registered cases were; the FCT
(82), Oyo (67), Edo (54), Ekiti (34), Plateau (34), Kano (27), Anambra (22),
Kaduna (19), Enugu (12), Ogun (5), and Kwara (4):
It stated also that Saturday’s 828 infections brought
Nigeria’s tally to 223,483, with 211,522 persons treated and discharged.
Saturday’s figure indicated a decrease of 756 infections on
Friday’s 1,584 cases.
The agency added that the country’s active cases across the
nation stood at 8,977 as at Saturday.
The centre added that no death was recorded on Saturday as
the country’s mortality figure still stands at 2,984 as at Saturday.
The NCDC noted that Nigeria had conducted 3,686,403 tests
since the virus was announced on Feb. 27, 2020.
(NAN)
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