Nigeria on Monday recorded another death from the coronavirus disease with 69 new cases of the infection.
Ondo State tops the chart of the new infections with 35 cases and closely followed by Lagos with 30. Rivers State also recorded three cases while the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded one.
The new figure raised the total number of infections in the country to 165,778, an update published by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday night indicates.
However, the agency clarified that the latest statistics contains Ondo State’s data from April 27 to May 18 while Lagos’ combines both Sunday and Monday data.
NCDC stated;
Today’s report includes: Data from Lagos State recorded over the last two days and Data from Ondo State recorded from 27th April to 16th May 2021.
Meanwhile, the latest death was recorded five days since the agency reported the last death from the virus, bringing total number of deaths from the virus in the country to 2,067.
69 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Ondo-35
Lagos-30
Rivers-3
FCT-1165,778 confirmed
156,415 discharged
2,067 deaths pic.twitter.com/tD5cM0djeX— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 17, 2021
A breakdown of the latest data shows that two people were discharged on Monday after testing negative for the virus, bringing the total number of discharged persons after treatment to 156,415.
The agency said over 7,000 cases are still active in the country and COVID-19 test figure also crossed the two million threshold on Monday.
Today’s report includes:
✅Data from Lagos State recorded over the last two days
✅Data from Ondo State recorded from 27th April to 16th May, 2021A breakdown of cases by state via https://t.co/zQrpNeOfet pic.twitter.com/zpV4vSC1KG
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 17, 2021
Since the pandemic broke out in Nigeria in February 2020, the country has carried out over 2.2 million tests, according to an update on its website.
Federal Government on April 28, 2020, announced its target of testing at least two million people within the next three months.
But by December, the country failed to test up to a million persons for the virus.
Meanwhile, more people are still taking jabs of Oxford/Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccines. Over 1.8 million people have so far received their first shots, according to an update by National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
