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Health News of Friday, 14 August 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Nigeria’s coronavirus cases exceed 48,000

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Nigeria’s confirmed Coronavirus infections have surpassed 48,000, after new 373 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday August 13, 2020.

Thursday’s figure pushed the total infections in the West African nation to 48,116.

Nigeria has continued to report less than 500 daily infections for the past three weeks.

Despite the continued decline in the daily figure of confirmed Coronavirus infections, there has been a troubling rise in mystery cases that health experts believe could hinder plans of a full opening of public activities across the country.

Ten deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, pushing the total number of fatalities so far to 966.

This was disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the agency heading the country's response to the virus outbreak.

The NCDC said out of a total of 48,116 infected persons so far, about 34,309 have recovered and have been discharged after treatment in the country’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The 373 new cases are reported from 20 states:

Lagos(69), Osun(41), Kaduna(40), Oyo(40), FCT(35), Plateau(22), Rivers(19), Kano(17), Ondo(17), Ogun(15), Abia(14), Gombe(12), Imo(9), Enugu(7), Kwara(6), Delta(5), Niger(2), Borno(1), Bauchi(1) and Nasarawa(1).

Lagos State recorded 69 new cases, the highest in Thursday’s tally followed by Osun state with 41 new infections.

Lagos is the hardest-hit state with about a third of Nigeria’s cases (over 16,000) recorded in the country’s commercial capital.

The second most affected place in Nigeria is Abuja, the capital city, with nearly 5,000 cases.

Nigeria has only tested over 340,000 out of the country’s over 200 million population.

To further boost the country’s testing capacity, the government approved N8.49 billion for the purchase of items needed to test for COVID-19.