NCDC Announces 58 New COVID-19 Infections

Olufemi Adeyemi 

Nigeria reported nearly 60 new COVID-19 cases and no virus-related deaths on Saturday, while the nationwide rate of residents testing positive for the virus continued to drop.

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC in a report on social media, announced 58 new COVID-19 cases across 9 states and Federal Capital Territory as the positivity rate continued to declined.

Nigeria has registered a total of 213,982 COVID-19 cases since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the eighth-highest toll in Africa, having South Africa in first place followed by Moroco, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Libya, Egypt and Kenya in seventh place.

For the second consecutive day, no deaths from the virus have been recorded. The deaths toll in the nation still 2,975.

Seventy recoveries have also been reported in the last 24 hours, pushing the total recoveries up to 207,184. The recovery rate is currently at 96.82 per cent of the known cases. 

The reports include 8 community discharges reported in Imo state on 26th November 2021. And 52 discharged cases reported in FCT on 26th November 2021 includes 50 community discharges, NCDC said.

As of today, Nigeria has 3,823 active cases of COVID-19 – down by 10 from 3,833 cases it was the previous day.

The breakdown of the new cases as released by NCDC as follows Imo-27, Lagos-9, Rivers-9, Katsina-3, Bayelsa-2, FCT-2, Kano-2, Niger-2, Bauchi-1 and Plateau-1.

Why Sokoto states reported no cases relating to the disease on Saturday.

NCDC noted that the 27 confirmed cases reported in Imo state is for 26th November 2021.

Two confirmed cases reported in FCT is for 26th November 2021. And two confirmed cases reported in Niger state is for 26th November 2021.

Meanwhile, reports of a new Covid variant, named Omicron, surfacing first in South Africa has triggered concerns across the world, with several countries, including the UK, US, Canada, Singapore, Germany, France, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia, among others, imposing travel bans on multiple southern African nations.

The new strain, declared as a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation, has also been detected in Israel, Italy  Botswana, Belgium, Hong Kong and Israel. It is said to be much more infectious than the Delta variant and the "most heavily mutated" version of coronavirus discovered so far.

November 28, 2021