COVID-19: Nigeria Records 8 Deaths, 665 New Cases On Saturday

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has recorded 665 new cases of COVID-19 and eight deaths across the country on Saturday.

The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Sunday morning, said that the country additional infections, though higher than the 636 on Saturday, raised the cumulative cases to 181,962.

The NCDC said the country’s fatality toll from COVID-19 now stands at 2,219.

The Public Health agency noted that new cases were reported from 13 states- Lagos (369), Anambra (68), Oyo (63), Akwa Ibom (48), Kwara (28), Rivers (26), Edo (21), Ekiti (15), Ondo (13), Delta (7), FCT (3), Ogun (3), and Gombe (1).

The NCDC stated that its report includes: six states with zero cases reported: Kaduna, Kano, Nasarawa, Osun, Plateau and Sokoto.

It added that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.

The NCDC said that since the beginning of the pandemic, the country had collected over 2,589,130, samples across the Federation.

The Public Health agency noted that 12,917 cases were still active in the country with many being managed at accredited isolation centres while others were under home care management.

The agency said that a total of 117 people recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Saturday, with total recoveries nationwide since the onset of the pandemic clocking 166,826.

The new tally reported by NCDC is slightly higher than the number of new cases recorded on Friday which was 636.

According to NCDC data as of Saturday morning, the country’s fatality toll from the pandemic now stood at 2,211 while cumulative cases now stand at 181,297.

The agency added that the country logged 636 additional infections on Friday, 117 fewer than the 753 cases recorded on Thursday.

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