Nigeria crossed the 30,000 mark on Wednesday, with a total of 30,249 coronavirus infections now confirmed across the country.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 460 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, while the fatality toll increased with another 15 deaths in the last 24 hours.
More than 100 patients have died of coronavirus complications in the past 14 day, bringing the country’s current total to 684 deaths.
According to the NCDC situation update for July 7, published on Wednesday, Taraba is the only state yet to record any COVID-19 death.
According to NCDC, “On the 8th of July 2020, 460 new confirmed cases and 15 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.
“Till date, 30249 cases have been confirmed, 12373 cases have been discharged and 684 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
“The 460 new cases are reported from 21 states; Lagos-150, Rivers-49, Oyo-43, Delta-38, FCT-26, Anambra-20, Kano-20, Plateau-18, Edo-14, Bayelsa-13, Enugu-13, Osun-12, Kwara-10, Borno-8, Ogun-7, Kaduna-6, Imo-4, Bauchi-3, Gombe-3, Niger-2, Adamawa-1.”
Since the outbreak of the disease in Nigeria in February, a total of 169,629 samples have been tested.
NCDC said as of the time of reporting on Wednesday night, there are 17,192 active cases of COVID-19 in the country, while 12, 373 have recovered and have been discharged.
See the breakdown of cases by state in the table below;
| States Affected | No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) | No. of Cases (on admission) | No. Discharged | No. of Deaths |
| Lagos | 11,670 | 9,839 | 1,698 | 133 |
| FCT | 2,348 | 1,614 | 699 | 35 |
| Oyo | 1,573 | 743 | 811 | 19 |
| Edo | 1,503 | 536 | 910 | 57 |
| Delta | 1,323 | 838 | 454 | 31 |
| Kano | 1,291 | 210 | 1,029 | 52 |
| Rivers | 1,284 | 404 | 836 | 44 |
| Ogun | 1,057 | 372 | 663 | 22 |
| Kaduna | 889 | 288 | 589 | 12 |
| Katsina | 628 | 164 | 441 | 23 |
| Borno | 563 | 75 | 453 | 35 |
| Ondo | 550 | 406 | 124 | 20 |
| Gombe | 524 | 116 | 387 | 21 |
| Bauchi | 519 | 9 | 497 | 13 |
| Ebonyi | 503 | -3 | 500 | 6 |
| Plateau | 478 | 223 | 241 | 14 |
| Enugu | 431 | 163 | 256 | 12 |
| Abia | 400 | 179 | 218 | 3 |
| Imo | 356 | 287 | 61 | 8 |
| Jigawa | 318 | 0 | 308 | 10 |
| Kwara | 307 | 136 | 162 | 9 |
| Bayelsa | 282 | 124 | 141 | 17 |
| Nasarawa | 234 | 113 | 113 | 8 |
| Osun | 210 | 119 | 84 | 7 |
| Sokoto | 153 | 2 | 135 | 16 |
| Niger | 124 | 30 | 87 | 7 |
| Benue | 121 | 80 | 35 | 6 |
| Akwa Ibom | 112 | 38 | 71 | 3 |
| Adamawa | 100 | 22 | 71 | 7 |
| Anambra | 93 | 27 | 57 | 9 |
| Kebbi | 86 | 16 | 63 | 7 |
| Zamfara | 76 | 0 | 71 | 5 |
| Yobe | 61 | 2 | 51 | 8 |
| Ekiti | 45 | 3 | 40 | 2 |
| Taraba | 27 | 16 | 11 | 0 |
| Cross River | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Kogi | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Meanwhile, KAFTAN Post reports that the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, says the federal government will not reopen schools in view of the rising cases of COVID-19 pandemic.
Adamu, who briefed State House reporters after the seventh virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, said schools would remain closed until it was certified that the situation was safe.
He said this was not the right time to open schools, adding that the government would not mind forfeiting the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE earlier scheduled for August 5 and September 5 in order to save the lives of students.
