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    Wednesday, December 15, 2021

    COVID-19 Infections Continue Upward Trend as NCDC Registers 730 New Cases

    Olufemi Adeyemi 

    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC continues to report a high progression of laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19, registering 730 new cases for the day December 14th, compared to 385 cases the previous day.

    This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country, since the start of the pandemic, to 218,596.

    Giving the update on the outbreak of the disease on its official website on Tuesday, the health officials noted that the new infections were recorded in 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

    It said Lagos state reported more than half of the new infections with 431 cases.

    The commercial city of roughly 20 million people has maintained the status of the COVID-19 epicentre since the disease outbreak in Feb 27, 2020, as the data on the NCDC website shows that the state has so far recorded a total of 81,030 cases, 80,053 recoveries and 756 deaths, about a quarter of the total deaths from the virus in Nigeria.

    Followed by Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) which reported 174 cases on Tuesday  and has so far recorded 24,069 cases of the virus, 23,289 recoveries and 224 deaths since last year.

    Rivers, the third most affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the country registered 38 new cases on Tuesday. The state has reported a total of 13,114 cases, 12,807 recoveries and 154 deaths.

    Other states with new cases on Tuesday includes Ogun-32, Akwa Ibom-25, Anambra-11, Katsina-7, Bayelsa-4, Niger-4, Kano-3 and Ekiti-1.

    While Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau and Sokoto states reported no new cases of the virus in the past 24 hours, NCDC said.

    Nigeria reported no deaths linked to the novel coronavirus on Tuesday. The country has reported a total of 2,982 fatalities linked to the deadly virus since 2020.

    With 1,178 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the total recoveries in the country climbed to 211,254 health officials said.

    NCDC added that the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country stands at 4,359, declined  by 207 from 4,566 it was on Monday.

    The health department continues to recommend disease prevention protocol; i.e., wearing masks, social distancing, hand washing, and disinfecting surfaces to prevent the spread of the virus.

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