Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases have continued to soar, exceeding the 20,000 mark with an addition of another 436 new infections on Sunday, just as the warning by authorities of a possible explosion is in the offing.
In a new detail released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the agency in charge of monitoring, evaluation and treatment of the cases, confirmed the worries of the Federal Government that it is not yet respite for the country.
Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), who heads the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, had told the nation to be prepared for the worse as the disease, which has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), could spike to a level where hundreds of people could be dying daily.
Mustapha, who indicated a high level of improvement in testing new cases, was worried that the attitude of some Nigerians to the pandemic, was helping the spike, adding that if such did not change the nation could be in serious problem in the next three weeks.
Disclosing the latest figures, on Sunday through it daily posting on its official Twitter handle, the NCDC, recorded Lagos, which has been topping the list, and where the first case was treated in February, as having 169 followed by Oyo and Plateau with 52 and 31 cases respectively.
Other affected states are Imo with 29 cases, Kaduna with 28, Ogun with 23, the FCT and Enugu with 18 each, Bauchi with 17, Bayelsa with 14, Rivers with eight, Osun and Kano with six each, Edo and Benu with five each, Adamawa with three, Borno with two, and Abia and Ekiti states with one each.
The NCDC also noted that a total of 6,879 patients have recovered and have been discharged, while the death toll now stands at 518.
Lagos-169
Oyo-52
Plateau-31
Imo-29
Kaduna-28
Ogun-23
FCT-18
Enugu-18
Bauchi-17
Bayelsa-14
Rivers-8
Osun-6
Kano-6
Edo-5
Benue-5
Adamawa-3
Borno-2
Abia-1
Ekiti-1
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