Nigeria: 7 COVID-19 Deaths, 727 Infections Recorded Thursday

As the COVID-19 outbreak continued to ravage world, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC on Thursday reported the deaths of another seven COVID-19 patients and additional 727 new cases of the disease in 17 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Thursday’s case count is higher than Wednesday’s, which saw 559 new infections reported.

The report also shows that, after fully recovered and tested negative to COVID-19, the health officials reported the discharged of 218 new patients.

Currently, active case in the Nigeria increased by 502, as total active rose to 9,591.

However, NCDC on Thursday via its official Facebook page, noted that the country’s total infection since the outbreak currently stands at 197,773, the death toll from the virus reached 2,585 and the number of successfully recovered patients rose to 185,597.

The breakdown of the NCDC data revealed that Rivers, Lagos, Edo, Imo and FCT reported the highest figure of 257, 157, 85, 63 and 33 cases respectively.

The data also showed that 28 cases of the virus were confirmed in Delta, 27 in Kaduna, 17 in Benue, 13 cases each in Akwa Ibom and Ekiti and 12 in Taraba.

While Bayelsa reported five cases, Kano and Ogun had four cases each, Oyo had three and two cases each in Abia, Nasarawa and Plateau.

Meanwhile Ondo, Osun and Sokoto are the only three states with no cases recorded on Thursday.

In conclusion, NCDC stated that today's report includes 12 positve cases from Taraba state on 7th September 2021. And cases from Edo state are backlogs from 7th, 8th and 9th September 2021.

September 09, 2021