Nigeria: 18 die of COVID-19 complications as cases rise again
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported that eighteen people died in Nigeria on Thursday from COVID-19 complications.
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The agency disclosed this on its twitter handle, stating new fatality figure raised the death toll to 2, 117 in total.
Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos, recorded 105 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours raising the total tally on Thursday to 122.
Five states contributed to the 122 infections recorded on Thursday. They are Lagos – 105, Imo-4, Kaduna-4, Akwa Ibom-3, FCT-2, Delta-1, Rivers-1, Oyo-1, Ekiti-1.
According to the NCDC data, there was a significant increase in recoveries as 5, 586 persons were discharged after treatment in the last 24 hours.
A total of 156, 935 people have now been discharged since the disease began spreading in the country.
According to the NCDC update, Nigeria’s infection total is now 166, 682 so far.
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