Lagos State witnessed an upsurge in daily new COVID-19 cases as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported additional 422 infections on Monday. The NCDC made this known via its verified…
Lagos State witnessed an upsurge in daily new COVID-19 cases as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reported additional 422 infections on Monday.It confirmed that the additional 422 cases were from nine states and the FCT.
Driving the latest wave was the highly contagious Delta variant with Lagos continuing to report more than half of the daily cases in the country.The public health agency tracking the coronavirus case surges in states across the country said that the additional coronavirus cases were rising across the country with 86 in Rivers State.The NCDC announced that 219 people had recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Saturday.
According to it, the country had tested more than 2.5 million samples for the virus out of the roughly 200 million population.The agency said that five new deaths were recorded on Monday, raising the total number of fatalities in the country to 2,192. According to it, the country’s COVID-19 infections continue to rise as the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria as of August 9, 2021, is 178,508.
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