The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 313 fresh cases of COVID-19.
The agency on Sunday night broke the news in a tweet posted on its official twitter page.
This brings the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria to 7,839 with 2,263 recovery and 226 deaths.
Posting the report on its Twitter page, NCDC states; “313 new cases of #COVID19 with 148-Lagos, 36-FCT, 27-Rivers, 19-Edo, 13-Kano, 12-Ogun, 11-Ebonyi, 8-Nasarawa, 8-Delta, 7-Oyo, 6- Plateau, 5-Kaduna, 4-Kwara, 3-Akwa Ibom, 3-Bayelsa, 2-Niger and 1 in Anambra.
”7839 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria, Discharged: 2263, Deaths: 226,” said the health agency.
While Lagos remains the epicentre of the pandemic with 148 newly recorded cases, the Lagos State Ministry of Health also on Sunday announced the recovery and discharge of 31 COVID-19 patients after testing negative twice consecutively.
KAFTAN Post reports that the ministry, through its verified Twitter handle, announced the discharge of 12 females and 19 males.
The latest discharge brings the total number of recoveries from the virus in the state to 738.
13 of the patients were released from Onikan, 11 from Gbagada, five patients from Agidingbi, one from Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, and one from LUTH Isolation Centre.
In Rivers State, the caseload continues to increase daily despite Governor Nyesom Wike’s decision to impose total lockdown on the state.
On Sunday night, NCDC recorded 27 new cases of Coronavirus in the state, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the state to 116.
Meanwhile, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and the government of President Muhammadu Buhari before the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over the alleged “brutal crackdown, repression, and grave violations and abuses of the human rights of the people of Rivers State.”
SERAP said: “Governor Wike is using COVID-19 as a pretext to step up repression and systematic abuses against the people of Rivers state, including by carrying out mass arbitrary detention, mistreatment, forced evictions, and imposing pervasive controls on daily life.”
SERAP is asking the court for an order of injunction to; “restrain and stop Governor Wike from further using, applying and enforcing executive orders 1 and 6 or any other executive orders to harass, arbitrarily arrest, detain and demolish property of the people of Rivers State.”
