The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday, announced that it had registered 42 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 166,061 confirmed cases.
As of Monday, 24 May, 2021, the public health agency recorded no COVID-19-related deaths, leaving the total fatalities in Nigeria at 2,067 deaths.
The NCDC made this known in an update via its official Twitter handle @NCDCgov.
It said that the 42 new cases were reported from 8 states, including: – Lagos (14), Gombe (11), Ebonyi (5), Kano (5), FCT (4) , Edo (1), Kaduna (1), Rivers (1).
It added that with the new cases, the total number of confirmed infections since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country had risen to 166,061.
The agency said that 156,492 Covid-19 patients had been discharged.
The NCDC further noted that there were now 7,376 active cases across the country in the last 24 hours and that it had so far carried out sample test on 2,002,653 persons since the outbreak of the pandemic, last year.
It also said that a multi-sector national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, was coordinating response activities countrywide.
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