53 Additional COVID-19 Cases, 11 Deaths Confirmed in Nigeria Thursday

Olufemi Adeyemi

COVID-19 infections are decreasing in Nigeria, with 53 new infections reported in 8 states and the Federal Capital Territory on average each day.

As the West African country continues to see a decline in the number of new daily cases, the government has warned against complacency in the fight against the pandemic.

According to the data shared by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC, the number of cumulative cases rose to 212,947.

The health officials also reported that the death toll in the country has risen to 2,933 as 11 more deaths linked to the virus were recorded on Thursday, which includes backlog of 10 deaths reported from Edo State.

However, NCDC added that 205,000 COVID-19 patients have recovered from disease and discharged from hospitals across the country since the start of the pandemic. Resolved cases increased by 325 in the past 24 hours. Why active cases dropped to 5,014.

The health officials stated that today’s report includes 16 discharged cases reported from Kano State on November 10th 2021.

And 295 discharged cases reported from FCT are community discharges

According to Thursday’s report, 19 cases were recorded in Lagos, 7 cases each FCT, Plateau and Rivers.

Imo reported 5 of the new cases, Kano had 4, Zamfara had 2, Bayelsa and Gombe recorded 1 case each.

It added that zero cases reported from Delta, Edo and Sokoto States.

NCDC noted that in today’s report, the 19 confirmed cases reported from Lagos State includes additional 9 on November 10th & 10 cases for 11th.

Five confirmed cases reported from Imo State are for November 10th.

Five confirmed cases reported from Kano State are for November 10th (1) & 11th (3).