Nigeria Records 106 New COVID-19 Infections

The daily case load remained low with 106 new infections registered on Thursday. Lagos once again led with 33 fresh cases being reported from the state.

With the latest addition, the country's tally has soared to 162,997, according to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC.

Nigeria added one more COVID-19 related deaths in last 24 hours. The total registered death toll due to COVID-19 has now reached 2,058, the tenth highest tally in Africa.

Also, data obtained from the health authority’s Twitter handle shows that 176 patients were discharged in the past 24 hours. The total number of recoveries  and discharges now 151,708.

The breakdown released by the country’s health authorities shows that, the new infections were reported from 11 states and Federal Capital Territory.

Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in country recorded the highest number of cases with 33 taking the total number of infections in states to 57,713.

While FTC, Cross River, Rivers, Kaduna and Edo recorded  20, 11, 11, 7, and 6 cases respectively.

Others include Ondo-6, Nasarawa-3, Ogun-3, Kano-2, Bauchi-2 and Osun-2.

Today’s death is from a backlog of data from Rivers State.

A breakdown of cases by state can be found via https://t.co/zQrpNeOfet pic.twitter.com/b3As2HiuHA

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 1, 2021

April 01, 2021