As Nigeria prepares for its first installment of coronavirus cases, fresh cases have continued to soar with 1,114 recorded on Friday.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), which disclosed this on its Twitter handle, said the new COVID-19 cases were recorded in 21 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
It added that the number of COVID-19 fatalities in Nigeria stood at 1,577 as of Friday night.
Also, the total number of confirmed cases increased to 128,674.
However, Nigeria has recorded 102,780 recoveries since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country last year.
The breakdown of the figure on a state-by-state basis revealed the following: Lagos (408), FCT (95), Plateau (90), Ondo (66), Kaduna (63), Oyo (56), Borno (46), Imo (42), Edo (41), Ogun (37), Rivers (31), and Ekiti (25).
Others are – Yobe (20), Kano (18), Akwa Ibom (18), Delta (15), Osun (15), Kwara (11), Bayelsa (6), Nasarawa (6), Zamfara (4), and Bauchi (1).
“Total confirmed COVID-19 cases: 128,674.
“Discharged: 102,780 AND Deaths: 1,577.”
Meanwhile, Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, said the country has secured an additional 41 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Although the previously scheduled period for delivery of the 100,000 doses was January 2021, the health minister said the date has now been moved to February, because of the “challenges of getting the supplies”.
Ehanire noted that the additional 41 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines is through the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT), a vaccine strategy organised by the African Union, which is chaired by South Africa President, Cyril Ramaphosa.
“A mechanism for the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT), of which the minister of health of Nigeria is a member, and the chair is the president of South Africa, was inaugurated in November 2020,” he said.
“At the meeting we had on the 6th of January, it was announced that they had a mix of 270 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines going to be ready, because they are on order.
“Now, we immediately applied for 10 million doses, but at the meeting we had two days ago, the AVATT team announced that they had now done allocation according to population.
“Nigeria is allocated 41 million doses of vaccines of three types.”
