More Nigerians are dying from coronavirus like never before

22 people died from the virus on Wednesday

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the country has recorded 1,861 new cases of the coronavirus, the second-highest daily infection tally.

According to the health agency, 22 people died from the virus on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, the second-highest death toll in the country. This number brings the total number of death to 1,544.

126,160 persons have been infected by the virus nationwide.

Exactly a week ago, Nigeria recorded 1,964 new cases, the county’s highest daily figure ever, Today.ng said.

Last week was one of the worst in Nigeria’s COVID-19 pandemic era.

According to a review of data provided by the NCDC, 11,659 persons tested positive for the virus last week (January 17- 23), which is 18 per cent higher than the previous week’s record of 9,880.

Deaths

The direct adverse effect of the spike in infections has been more deaths.

In the previous 24 hours, before the latest update, 15 people died from the disease.

Nigeria, about two weeks ago, recorded the deadliest day thus far in the global coronavirus pandemic, with 23 deaths under 24 hours.

Last week, Nigeria reported 82 deaths, which represents a 14 per cent increase from the previous week’s record.

Health authorities attributed the rising death toll to late referrals of COVID-19 patients to treatment centres, according to Today.ng.

Of the over 126,000 new cases, a total of 100,365 patients have recovered across the country.

Meanwhile, there are over 20,000 patients still receiving treatments in isolation centres.

Specifics

The 1,861 new cases were reported from 22 states – Lagos (773), FCT (285), Oyo (138), Rivers (111), Plateau (92), Nasarawa (83), Kaduna (59), Enugu (57), Imo (57), Edo (43), Kano (27), Kwara (20), Ebonyi (19), Abia (17), Ogun (12), Osun (12), Katsina (8), Bayelsa (6), Bauchi (5), Delta (5), Borno (4), Jigawa (4), and Zamfara (1).

Lagos, Nigeria’s COVID-19 epicentre, led with 773 new cases followed by Abuja, the second most impacted city, with 285 new infections.

Nigerian authorities a few days ago said the COVID-19 vaccines expected this month will no longer arrive until February.

Nigeria, a country of about 200 million people, has conducted just over 1.2 million tests for the virus.