Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 476 new cases, 265 recoveries and 7 casualties on Thursday, August 19.
NCDC in a tweet on its official Twitter handle announced;
476 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-235
FCT-44
Kaduna-41
Borno-33
Plateau-28
Abia-13
Edo-13
Rivers-12
Imo-11
Oyo-10
Kano-9
Kwara-7
Enugu-5
Katsina-5
Gombe-4
Ogun-4
Nasarawa-1
Zamfara-150,964 confirmed
37,569 discharged
992 deaths pic.twitter.com/2crpzyzHoO— NCDC (@NCDCgov) August 20, 2020
It would be recalled that on Wednesday, the country’s total case exceeded 50,000 with 50,488 total cases, 37,304 recoveries and 985 fatalities nationwide.
With the latest toll, total cases have now increased to 50,964 with 37,569 recoveries and 992 casualties across the country.
Also, NCDC in its latest situation report has revealed that overall samples tested nationwide have increased from 363,331 to 366,244 as at August 19.
Meanwhile, Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has said only 20 Local Governments in the country are responsible for 50 percent of the COVID-19 cases recorded.
NGF’s Chairman, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State disclosed this while briefing the 15th teleconference meeting of the forum held on Wednesday.
He stated;
In the light of this, all state governments will be required to scale up risk communications campaigns in these areas through state and local structures.
The meeting then resolved to scale up the implementation of the Risk Communications Community Engagement (RCCE) strategy developed by the Presidential Task on COVID-19.
