The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday announced that it had recorded 51 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 164,684 confirmed cases.
As of Saturday, 24 April, 2021, the public health agency recorded no COVID-19-related deaths.
The figure of fatalities in Nigeria so far was 2,061 as of Saturday night.
The NCDC made this know in an update via its official Twitter handle @NCDCgov, noting that 51 new cases were reported from 6 states, including: – Yobe (19), Lagos (17), Rivers (8), FCT (4), Akwa Ibom (2), Bayelsa (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 164,684.
It said that 154,687 Covid-19 patients had been discharged.
The NCDC further noted that there were now 7,929 active cases across the country in the last 24 hours and it had so far carried out sample test on 1,870,915 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 n nationwide.
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