The Rainbow
Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases have maintain almost stable acceleration with little hint as to when the curve is going to be flatten.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports that the country recorded 603 new cases on Saturday which took the total infection case to 28,167.
What belies Nigeria’s is the country’ low testing capacity. While countries like US and UK, where the numbers are quite high test hundreds of thousands daily Nigeria does not test upt to 3000 per day.
NCDC in a tweet late on Saturday confirmed that 634 people have lost the battle to the virus.
A breakdown of the figure of new cases shows that of the 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lagos has the highest with 135, followed by Edo State with 87 new cases.
Others include FCT – 73, Rivers – 67, Delta – 62, Ogun – 47, Kaduna – 20, Plateau – 19, Osun – 17, Ondo – 16, Enugu – 15, Oyo – 15, Borno – 13, and Niger – 6, Nasarawa – 4, Kebbi – 3, Kano – 2, Sokoto – 1, and Abia – 1.
