Coronavirus: Nigeria's death toll exceeds 1,000

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that more than a thousand people have died from the virus in the country.

This comes after five more deaths were recorded on Sunday, taking the death tally to 1002.

According to the NCDC data, there are still over 12,000 active cases across the country, Premium Times reports.

A total of 38,945 infected persons have recovered and have been discharged after treatment in the country’s 36 states and federal capital, Abuja.

The 322 new cases are from the following 18 states:

“Lagos-130 Bauchi-36 FCT-25 Edo-17 Bayelsa-14 Ogun-14 Oyo-14 Anambra-13 Kaduna-12 Ondo-11 Abia-10 Osun-6 Plateau-5 Kwara-5 Kano-4 Ebonyi-3 Sokoto-2 Borno-1.”

With a daily tally of about 130 on Sunday, Lagos further stretched it’s lead on the number of infections to almost 18,000, about a third of the country’s total said Premium Times.

While Nigeria continues to record more COVID-19 cases daily, the country has reopened its economy after months of shut down.

Last week Monday at the bi-weekly Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced that international flights will resume on August 29.

Local flights had resumed about a month ago.