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Nigeria on Thursday recorded 558 new COVID-19 infections in 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control figures on Friday morning also showed that two new deaths from COVID-19-related complications were reported.
The centre said that Lagos State led the infection chart with 376 cases.
The NCDC said that Lagos is followed by Oyo with 33, Akwa Ibom-26, the FCT-22, Imo-15, Bayelsa and Ekiti reported 13 each.
The centre also said that Kano reported 12 cases while Ogun recorded 11, Plateau-11, Delta-nine, Jigawa-six, Rivers-four, Zamfara-four, Edo-two, and Ebonyi-one.
”Today’s report includes zero cases from Kaduna, Nasarawa, Ondo, and Osun.
”The NCDC regrettably recorded two COVID-19-related deaths on Thursday keeping the death toll at 2, 141,” the centre said.
The agency said that 44 people have recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Thursday.
It added that till date, 164,930 recoveries have recorded nationwide in 36 states and the FCT.
The NCDC said that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre, activated at Level II, continues to coordinate the national response activities.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NCDC reported that Nigeria has so far recorded 10 new cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant.
The Director-General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu disclosed this at the ministerial briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja, on July 27.
