The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced 137 additional coronavirus infections with two deaths in eight states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The NCDC made the announcement via its verified website late on Saturday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the 137 new cases indicate a decline from the 269 cases reported the previous day in Africa’s most populous nation.
The public health agency noted that the new infections had raised the total number of infections in the country to 207,616, stating that the country’s total death toll stood at 2,745.
The centre noted that 195,132 cases had been cleared and discharged while 9,741 were still down with the disease across the country as of October 9.
The NCDC added that Lagos State, the epicentre of the disease, led in the latest tally with 46 cases, followed by the FCT with 35 cases, while Kaduna State in the North-West recorded 20 cases to rank third.
Benue recorded 13 cases, Oyo State nine, followed by Kano State and Rivers with six cases each.
Ekiti State in the South-West and Nasarawa State in the North-Central announced one case each.
Imo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Plateau and Sokoto states reported that they recorded no case on October 9.
The public health agency noted also that Kano State reported one death on October 8.
The centre said that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre activated at level 2 had continued to coordinate national response activities on the disease.
The NCDC stated that over 3,043,321 million samples of the virus from the nation’s roughly 200 million population had been tested.
(NAN)
