Over 1,100 COVID 19 Infections Recorded as Nigeria Battles Virus

• Nigeria recorded 7 deaths from COVID 19 complications on Wednesday, August 19, which brings the country’s total death total to 2,236 deaths

• The country also recorded 1,149 new cases across the 16 states where testing was carried out on Wednesday

• Lagos remains the epicentre of the virus, accounting for more than 50% of the total recorded infections

  Daily recorded COVID 19 infections skyrocketed to 1,149 on Wednesday, with Lagos leading the surge.

The country has been struggling to contain the spread of the virus since the more transmissible Delta variant made its way into the country.

The latest daily infections are far higher than the 357 cases that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported the previous day.

The huge difference between both data is likely because infection cases from Lagos were not included in he report yesterday.

680 new cases were recorded in the populous city on Wednesday(this includes infection cases that were not reported on Tuesday).

Rivers followed with 157 new cases while Akwa Ibom recorded 94 infections in the latest report.

Oyo and Edo completed the top 5 in recorded infections with 56 and 36 daily infections respectively.

The Federal Capital Territory had 34, Ogun (31), Ekiti state (20), Delta (16) while 5 new infections were recorded in Abia state.

Nasarawa state had 5, Osun (5), Cross River (4), Plateau (3). The list is completed by Sokoto and Kano on 2 and 1 cases respectively.

7 people died from COVID 19 complications on Wednesday as the death toll climbed to 2,236.

The latest report brings the total recorded COVID 19 cases in Nigeria to 184,593.

As of today, 167,738 people have been discharged while 14,619 cases remain active across the country.

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