The NCDC update on Sunday shows that there was no recorded COVID-19 fatality across Nigeria within the last 24 hours.
On Sunday, 541 persons across 12 Nigerian states and the country’s capital, Abuja, tested positive for coronavirus disease.said the new cases, which is slightly lower than the 665 reported a day earlier, raised the total infections in the country to 182,503.
The latest update from the NCDC came as the ongoing strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors has continued to paralyse critical activities in tertiary hospitals across the country. Resident doctors, who are in training to become consultants, are pivotal to frontline healthcare in Nigeria as they constitute a larger share of physicians in Nigeria’s tertiary hospitals.
Following unresolved issues with the Nigerian government that include delayed payment of salaries and allowances, the NARD, on Monday, August 2, resumed the strike it suspended nearly four months ago. Meanwhile, with 541 infections reported on Sunday, Nigeria has recorded 7,613 cases within two weeks since the strike commenced on August 2.
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