Unease As Nigeria Hits 386 New COVID-19 Cases

By Emmanuel Aziken

The daily tally of new COVID-19 confirmed cases in the country went to another peak on Friday after a marginal increase to 386 cases across the country.

The new peak was a marginal increase from the 381 cases reported on Thursday. The cases were reported from 20 states and the FCT and Lagos as been the case reported the highest number of new cases with 176 new cases.

That was, however, a marginal decrease from the 183 new cases reported the day before.

The spread of the new cases was also marginally higher with two more states reporting up from the 18 states and the FCT that reported new cases on Thursday.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC in its daily report of developments in a tweet said:

Meanwhile, the director-general of the NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu has played down the situation in Kogi State where his officials fled after Governor Yahaya Bello ordered them to be isolated following their supervisory visit to the state.

He said that the NCDC can only offer help where the help is wanted.

“Let me say we’ve had a wonderful relationship with Kogi, it’s one of the first states where we set up an EOC; we gave State Epidemiologist a vehicle over a year ago; the Commissioner for Health is a personal friend.”

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