Nigeria confirms 454 new cases as daily infection rate drops below 500 in 10 days

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Nigeria on Friday night confirmed 454 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 27,564.

The announcement was made by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its verified twitter handle.

The health agency in a tween said twelve deaths were recorded from the virus on Friday bringing the total number of confirmed deaths from the virus to 628.

According to the NCDC situation report, there is still a higher rate of infections among males, with well over 17,000 confirmed positive, while less than 10,000 females have COVID-19.

Over 144,833 samples have now been tested across the country.

Lagos remains the epicentre for the disease in the country. Zamfara has not reported any new confirmed case in the past 46 days.

“Till date, 27, 546 cases have been confirmed, 11, 069 cases have been discharged and 628deaths have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory,” the NCDC stated.

The 454 new cases were reported from 19 states: Lagos – 87, Edo – 63, FCT – 60, Ondo – 41, Benue – 32, Abia – 31, Ogun – 29, Oyo – 19, Kaduna – 17, Delta – 16, Enugu – 15, Borno – 14, Plateau – 9, Nasarawa – 8, Kano – 5, Bauchi – 4, Gombe – 2, Katsina – 1 and Kogi – 1.

35 states and the FCT have now recorded at least a case of the disease. Only one state, Cross River, is yet to officially report any case of the virus although there are controversies about it.

It would be recalled that the management of University of Calabar reported on Friday that five new confirmed cases of COVID -19 had been diagnosed at the institution. This brings the total unofficial reported cases in the state to six.

However, the Cross River State Government continue to insist that there are no confirmed cases of the virus in the state.

A breakdown of the 27, 564 confirmed cases shows that Lagos State has so far reported 10, 910 cases, followed by FCT – 2, 080, Oyo – 1, 451, Kano – 1, 262, Edo – 1, 269, Delta – 1, 165, Rivers – 1, 114, Ogun –927, Kaduna – 835, Katsina – 579, Bauchi – 516, Gombe – 513, Borno – 515, Ebonyi – 483, Plateau – 402, Ondo – 394, Imo – 352, Abia – 482, Enugu – 357, Jigawa – 318, Kwara – 369, Bayelsa – 324, Nasarawa – 221, Sokoto – 152, Osun – 148, Niger – 116, Akwa Ibom – 104, Adamawa – 89, Kebbi – 81, Zamfara – 76, Anambra – 73, Benue – 97, Yobe – 61, Ekiti – 43, Taraba – 19 and Kogi – 5.

Meanwhile, there was a drop in the number of confirmed cases reported on Friday (454) compared to what was reported on Thursday (626).

This is the first time in 10 days that the number of samples that have tested positive for COVID-19 will drop below 490.

Within the past 10 days, the country has recorded between 560 and over 700 cases, with the highest count ever of 790 new cases confirmed on July 1, 2020.

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