With the recent
addition, the country’s COVID-19 cases has climbed up to 214,896, Nigeria Centre
for Disease Control NCDC disclosed this via its official Facebook page.
NCDC added that 17
people were discharged, which includes 1 discharged case reported in Enugu
state on 6th December 2021.
Active cases have risen
to 4,421 from 4,331 it was the previous day.
Again on Tuesday, no patient
was confirmed to have died of COVID-19 complications in past 24 hours.
The nationwide death toll from the virus remained 2,980. NCDC added, in total, 207,495 people have been discharged from hospitals after their symptoms improved.
A breakdown of the
NCDC update shows that Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) reported 38 out
of the new cases , Oyo reported 21 cases, Rivers had 17 cases and Edo had 13 cases.
On the other hand, Delta
reported 7 cases, Enugu and Zamfara reported 4 cases each and Plateau had 3 cases.
While 5 states, Kano,
Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Sokoto reported no cases of the virus.
The health officials noted that todays report includes 7
confirmed cases reported in Delta state on
6th (4) & 7th (3) December 2021.
Four confirmed cases
reported in Enugu State on 6th December 2021, NCDC said.
However, Nigeria
Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday afternoon announced that three additional
cases of the Omicron variant have been reported.
The new cases bring
the total of the recently discovered variant of the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria
to six.
The Omicron variant,
which was first reported by South Africa, has been designated a ‘variant of
concern’ by the World Health Organization.
Though the global
health body says it is still launching investigations into the new strain,
several countries such as the United Kingdom, Singapore, Canada among others
have issued travel restrictions into their territories.
The NCDC in the
statement signed by the Director-General, Ifedayo Adetifa further explained
that the three additional cases were detected in passengers linked to South
Africa in November.
The statement partly
reads, “The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed three more cases
of COVID-19 with the B.1.1.529 SARS-CoV-2 lineage, i.e., the Omicron variant,
in Nigeria.
“In addition to the
three cases announced earlier on 1st December 2021, this brings the total
number of confirmed cases of the Omicron variant detected in Nigeria to six.
All the Omicron cases so far were detected in persons with recent travel
history to South Africa in November.
“The NCDC through the
National Reference Laboratory continues to coordinate genomic surveillance
activities across the country to sequence all positive COVID-19 samples from
international travellers arriving in Nigeria. This includes sequencing of
positive samples from international travellers from October 2021 to date.
“The Delta variant
remains the dominant variant and so far, we have not seen the replacement of
this variant by the new Omicron variant as observed elsewhere.”
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