On the day Nigeria announced a travel ban on three countries experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases, the country continued its trend of recording low infection and casualty figure from the virus.
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There were no fatalities recorded from COVID-19 in Nigeria on Sunday as the country reported its lowest daily infection in several months.
Nigeria recorded 14 new cases on Sunday, an update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) shows, raising total number of infections in the country to 165,167.
According to the update, no new death was recorded from the virus which has already claimed 2,063 lives in the country.
This makes it the fourth consecutive day that nobody died from the disease in the country.
The number of deaths recorded from the virus has declined recently with only two deaths recorded in the last 19 days.
The 14 new cases were reported from seven states; Osun-3, Ogun-3, Kaduna-3, Akwa Ibom-2, Abia-1, FCT-1 and Kwara-1.
📢Case Update for 2nd May, 2021
28 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-14
Osun-3
Ogun-3
Kaduna-3
Akwa Ibom-2
Abia-1
FCT-1
Kwara-1165,181 confirmed
155,361 discharged
2,063 deaths pic.twitter.com/0VtqQbDRav— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 3, 2021
A breakdown of the latest data shows that 252 people were discharged on Sunday after testing negative for the virus, bringing the total number of discharged persons after treatment to 155,361.
NCDC said;
Today’s report includes 248 community recoveries in Kwara State managed in line with guidelines.
Meanwhile, 7,743 infections are still active in the country, the infectious disease body said.
Since the pandemic broke out in Nigeria in February 2020, the country has carried out over 1.9 million tests.
📢 Supplementary update for 2nd May 2021
28 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria were reported on 2nd May 2021
Includes ‘14’ new confirmed cases reported in Lagos state, not included in yesterday’s report
A breakdown of cases by state can be found via: https://t.co/zQrpNeOfet pic.twitter.com/LOAYAsZRYp
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 3, 2021
