Nigeria Records 10 Deaths, 397 New COVID-19 Infections

Nigeria recorded its lowest number of confirmed coronavirus infections in at least 6 days with 397 new infections announced on Monday .

The latest update is slightly higher than the 356 cases recorded on Monday, December 21st and lower than the 501 infections reported found Sunday December 20.

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Monday reported 397 new cases of the coronavirus in 17 states and the Federal Capital Territory, which brought the nation’s total cases to 84,811. While it should be noted that only 12,126 are currently active.

In a tweet via its official handle, NCDC said 144 new cases were identified in Lagos, 83 in Plateau, 48 in Kaduna, 36 in Adamawa and 22 in Rivers.

While Oyo reported 16 cases, Kebbi had 10, Nasarawa and Sokoto reported 7 cases each. Also 5 cases each were confirmed in FCT and Kano, 4 cases in Edo and Jigawa had 3 cases.

Ogun and Akwa Ibom state had 2 cases each and Niger, Bauchi and Zamfara reported 1 case each.

NCDC added that the death of COVID-19 related complications has increased by 10, while 323 patients have been discharged after testing negative twice from the disease on Monday.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has conducted about 932,327 tests since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announced.

In summary, on the 28th of December 2020, 397 new confirmed cases and 10 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.

Till date, 84,811 cases have been confirmed, 71,357 cases have been discharged and 1,264 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

Our discharges today includes 152 community recoveries in Lagos State managed in line with guidelines.

A breakdown of cases by state can be found via https://t.co/zQrpNeOfet pic.twitter.com/JrkQfTpqS4

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) December 28, 2020

December 28, 2020