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NCDC records 1,368 new COVID-19 infections, 16 more deaths

Emmanuel Akosile | ConsumerConnect

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,368 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the aggregate number of virus infections in the country to 148,296.

The health and disease agency stated this on its verified official Twitter handle Tuesday, February 16.

The Agency also registered an additional 16 COVID-19 deaths, raising the total fatality in the country to 1,777 in the last 24 hours.

The NCDC stated that the 1,368 new infections were reported from 27 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Anambra State, in South Eastern Nigeria, registered the highest infections for the first time since the pandemic broke out in February 2020 in the country, according to the agency.

It noted that of the 1,368 new cases, Anambra posted 344 cases, in spite of not recording any case the previous day, followed by Oyo state which also witnessed a rise in infections after recording 172 cases and the FCT in third position confirmed 148 infections.

The agency noted that 107 of the virus were found in Benue state, Rivers had 95, Ogun-59, Ondo-56, Ebonyi-53, Kaduna-52, Plateau-46, Kwara-36 and Enugu-30.

Other states with registered cases were Akwa Ibom-26, Osun-22, Edo-20, Abia-17, Kano-16, Borno-15, Cross River-10, Delta-8, Gombe-8, Imo-7, Ekiti-5, Sokoto-4, Jigawa-3, Bayelsa-3, Nasarawa-3 and Zamfara-3.

The public health agency stated that at least 1,474 people had recovered and been discharged from isolation centres across the country in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people who had been discharged after recovery to 124,483.

It noted that the discharged recorded on Tuesday included 762 community recoveries in Anambra State, 132 in Plateau State and 126 in FCT.

The NCDC stated that this included data reported from Enugu State over the last two days and a backlog of deaths reported from Abia State.

According to NCDC, a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, is coordinating response activities nationwide.

Nigeria has tested 1,441,013 people since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announced February 27, 2020.

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