COVID-19 updates by NCDC
By Abujah Racheal
Nigeria recorded 667 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 19,808.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on Saturday through its official Twitter handle.
NCDC said that the 661 new confirmed cases were reported in 14 states, with 19 deaths.
The health agency said that no new state reported a case in the last 24 hours.
The NCDC said that Lagos reported the highest number of cases with 230 new cases and Rivers was second with 127 new infections.
Others are Delta(83), FCT(60), Oyo(51), Edo(31),Bayelsa(27), Kaduna(25), Plateau(13), Ondo(6), Nasarawa(3), Ekiti(2), Kano(2), Borno(1).
The NCDC said out of the 19,808 confirmed cases, 12, 584 are active while 6,718 cases have been treated and discharged.
The centre also said that 111,052 samples have been collected while Nigeria recorded 506 deaths recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The health agency reiterated that its mandate is to protect the health of all Nigerians and as such, it was obliged to state the facts.
The NCDC said it is leading the expansion of testing capacity for COVID-19 in Nigeria, as part of the national strategy to scale up COVID-19 testing published in March 2020, and they were leveraging GeneXpert equipment currently used for the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
Source: NAN News