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    Nigeria's COVID-19 Infection Declines With Eight Cases Recorded Thursday

    Nigeria’s daily COVID-19 cases further dropped on Thursday with eight cases recorded in the last 24 hours, as per Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC data.

    Thursday’s figures represent a significant decrease over 28 cases confirmed on Wednesday.

    A breakdown of the new infections showed that they were confirmed in one state and the Federal Capital Territory with Rivers State having five cases and the nation’s capital, FCT recorded three cases.

    While seven states: Abia, Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Nasarawa, Plateau and Sokoto reported zero cases on Thursday.

    The recovery of 16 patients in the last 24 hours has increased the cumulative tally to 249,154. Consequently, Nigeria's recovery rate stands at 97.86 per cent of the known cases, the health officials said.

    Total active coronavirus cases in the country now 2,325 down by 28 from 2,353 it was 48 hours ago.

    NCDC added that the recoveries includes 10 community discharges reported in FCT.

    With the new figures, Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections now stand at 254,606 out of which 249,154 have been successfully treated and discharged.

    While they were no new recorded deaths, the data show that 3,142  people have died from COVID-19 complications.

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