Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) registered 110 new COVID-19 cases, with no related death in the daily infection chart.
The public health agency noted that the country’s fatality toll stood at 2,122, while the new cases jerked up total infections to 168,110.
The NCDC said that Rivers recorded 12 new cases of COVID-19, noting that “this brings the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 7,351 with 7,187 discharged and 101 deaths.”x The public health agency noted that the country’s active COVID-19 cases were still over 1,500, with 1,016 in Lagos State alone.
It added that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre , activated at Level 2, continues to coordinate the national response activities.It noted that “the fight against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation is an aggressive one that requires Nigerians to play their role. To return to life as we know it, we must increase vaccine acceptance.”