Nigeria on Friday recorded three additional fatalities from Covid-19 complications, raising the total deaths in four days to 32.
A total of 565 new cases were also recorded within the last 24 hours, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said in an update on its Facebook page Friday night.
According to the update, the country’s total infections has risen to 177,142 while the fatality toll stands at 2,181.
The increase in deaths and infections has been attributed to the Delta variant and experts are of the opinion that the situation could get worse if an ongoing doctors’ strike continues.
The nationwide strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) entered the sixth day on Saturday with services paralysed in tertiary hospitals across the country.
About 16 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) contributed to the 565 new cases.
The NCDC data revealed that Lagos, the epicentre of the disease, recorded 348 new infections.
Rivers State had 70 cases, Akwa Ibom (45), Oyo (36), with the FCT accounting for 24.
Others are Ekiti (15), Kwara (7), Ogun (7), Gombe (3), Anambra (2), Kaduna (2), Bayelsa (2), Cross River, Edo, Plateau, Kano and Sokoto states had one infection each.
Meanwhile, according to the NCDC data, of the over 177,000 total cases, 165,409 people have recovered and have been discharged from hospitals across the country.
The centre added that Nigeria has tested more than 2.5 million samples out of its estimated 200 million population.
Active cases in Nigeria have jumped to 9,066, according to the NCDC.
