BY AGENCY REPORTER
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said that a total of 637 additional COVID-19 infections and seven deaths were recorded on August 25.
This brings the COVID-19 infections in the country, as at Wednesday, to 188,880.
The News Agency of Nigeria however, reports that the new infections indicate a decrease from the 655 cases reported on Tuesday.
The NCDC announced via its verified website on Thursday that the seven COVID-19 related deaths recorded on Wednesday increased the country’s fatality figure to 2,288.
The public health agency noted that there was a surge of the Delta variant in five states with a caution that the Delta variant is more contagious than previous versions of COVID-19.
It advised unvaccinated people to get vaccinated, adding that “everyone in areas of substantial/ high transmission should wear a mask, even if vaccinated.”
NCDC did not indicate if majority of the known active cases were from the contagious Delta variant.
It stated that over 2,727,834 samples of the virus out of the nation’s roughly 200 million population were tested, with an average test positivity rate of six per cent.
The agency said that the country had treated 169,382 COVID-19 cases following the discharge of 347 additional people on Wednesday.
It added that the multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre, activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
Meanwhile, the agency said that the new cases were reported in 18 states and the FCT.
Lagos State recorded the highest infections with 322, Rivers-70, Edo-54, Delta-34, Akwa Ibom-31, Kwara-31, FCT-29, Ekiti-17, Ogun-14, Osun-10, Kebbi-8, Cross River-5, Plateau-3, Taraba-3, Kaduna-2, Bayelsa-2, Benue, Enugu, and Kano, reported one each.
The NCDC said that six states; Gombe, Kano, Nasarawa, Oyo, Sokoto and Zamfara states reported zero case.
