The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, on Friday, recorded 167 new cases and two deaths from the coronavirus pandemic.
This is contained in a data released by NCDC on Saturday morning.
The public health agency said that with the new fatalities, the death toll from the virus in the country stood at 2,769.
The agency added that the total number of infections from the pandemic had reached 208,797, while a total of 196,425 cases had been discharged across the country.
The NCDC said that Rivers State ranked first with 68 cases, followed by the Federal Capital Territory with 43 cases, while Lagos State, the epicentre of the disease, ranked third with 24 cases.
It added that Plateau and Niger states in the North-Central recorded 10 and eight cases respectively, while Edo State in the South-South and Kano State in the North-West recorded five and four cases respectively.
Benue in the North-Central and Oyo in the South-West had two cases each, while Delta came last on the log with a single case.
According to the NCDC, over 3,043,321 samples from the nation’s roughly 200 million population had been tested.
It added that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre, activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
The NCDC said that the pandemic had reinforced the importance of hand washing to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
“Let us make regular #handwashing a habit to stay safe and save lives.
“Our future is in our hands – Let’s move forward together,” it advised.
(NAN).
