The NCDC made this known on Monday.

The centre said Nigeria’s total number of COVID-19 cases increased to 254,525.

The NCDC said that Abia reported the highest with seven cases followed by Lagos, Edo and the FCT with six, four, three cases respectively.

It added that Kaduna State reported two cases, Osun and Rivers reported one case each.

The centre said it did not record any fatality for nine days.

It also said 20 people recovered from the virus  on Sunday and have been discharged from isolation centres across the country.

The NCDC noted that the country’s active COVID-19 cases now stands at 2,471, while 3,142 people have died from COVID-19.

The  National Primary Health Care Development Agency, said of February 18, Nigeria administered over 20 million doses, of the COVID-19 vaccines.

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The NCDC via its verified website on Friday said that no fatality was confirmed on Thursday and the country’s COVID-19 death stood at 3,142.

The health agency said that 18,004 more patients were reported to have recovered from the novel coronavirus after treatment from various isolation centres across the country, taking the number of total recoveries in the nation to 248, 850.

The NCDC said that the recoveries today includes 17,984 community discharges from Lagos State and a backlog of discharges from state from December 2021 till date.

It said that the country’s active coronavirus cases in the country stood at 20,406.

The NCDC said that the additional cases of the COVID-19 were reported in three states and the FCT.

It said that Rivers led with 15 cases, Lagos reported 14 cases and Abia had five cases, while Delta and Sokoto reported no infections on Thursday.

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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, made this known on Tuesday morning.

The centre also said that there was no virus-related death.

The NCDC said Lagos State reported 28 infections, followed by Akwa Ibom with 18 and Ondo reported 10.

The centre said Cross River reported nine cases, Rivers-six, Edo-two, Delta-one and Kano-one.

The centre said 230,457 people were discharged while the death toll was 3, 141.

The NCDC said a multi-sectoral National Emergency Operations centre, activated at Level II, continues to coordinate the national response activities.

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The NCDC, via its verified website on Sunday morning, said that the additional infections in the country moved up to 253,685 on Saturday, indicating on Saturday alone, there was an increase from the 35 cases recorded the previous day.

It noted that three deaths were reported in the country on Saturday, as the country’s total death toll is now 3,139.

The agency added that Imo State led on the list with 65 infections, while Lagos, Ondo and  Kano reported 36, 20 and 6 cases respectively.

Osun and Rivers registered six cases each while other records are the FCT (3), Delta, Kaduna, and Ogun, one each.

According to it, a  total of 230,126 Nigerian residents have recovered from COVID-19.

The agency added that the Omicron variant is the dominant variant in the country and ‘BA.2,’ the sub-variant of the strain, is more prevalent in India now.

“The B.1.1.529 lineage of COVID-19 was named Omicron. However, it was discovered later that this lineage has certain sub-variations. The three most common types are: “B.1.1.529.1 (BA.1– currently predominant), B.1.1.529.2 (BA.2 – raised concerns) and (B.1.1.529.3 (BA.3).

“It could be more infectious, but there has been no evidence that flags it as more harmful,” it added.

Meanwhile, The World Health Organisation, WHO, on February 1, pointed out that the BA.2 sub-variant had been detected in 57 countries, predominantly in Asia and Europe.

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The global health agency said during its weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 that more than 370 million confirmed cases and more than 5.6 million deaths has been reported worldwide.

“Globally, during the week of 24 to 30 January 2022, the number of new COVID-19 cases remained similar to that reported during the previous week, while the number of new deaths increased by 9 per cent.

“Across the six WHO regions, over 22 million new cases and over 59,000 new deaths were reported.

“As of 30 January 2022, more than 370 million confirmed cases and more than 5.6 million deaths have been reported globally,’’ it said.

It said that at the regional level, increases in the number of new cases were reported by the Western Pacific (37 per cent) and Eastern Mediterranean (24 per cent).

It added that European was (7 per cent) region, while a decrease was reported by the region of the Americas (20 per cent) and the South-East Asia Region (8 per cent).

The report said that the number of new cases reported in the African Region remained similar to the previous week.

The number of new weekly deaths continued to increase in the South-East Asia region (41 per cent), the Eastern Mediterranean region (32 per cent) and the Region of the Americas (16 per cent).

It added that the African region reported a decrease of seven per cent.

The incidence of deaths remained similar to the previous week in the European and the Western Pacific regions.

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The NCDC, via its verified website on Wednesday morning, said that with the additional cases, coronavirus infections in the country moved up to 253,340 on Tuesday.

The public health agency noted that of the additional infections, Lagos State, Yobe and Rivers reported most of the cases with 57, 37, and 27 respectively.

Others include the FCT – 14, Gombe State – 14, Kano State – 7, Bayelsa – 1, Ekiti – 1, and Nasarawa State – 1.

Delta, Kaduna, Ogun, Ondo State, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, and Sokoto states reported zero case on Tuesday.

The NCDC noted that the 57 confirmed cases reported in Lagos State were made up of 26 for January and 31 for February 1.

It added that the new figure showed that no person died as a result of COVID-19 infections in the country on Tuesday.

The public health agency said 335 patients, including 172 community cases reported from the FCT, were discharged after testing negative for the disease.

It added that the additional infections brought the total number of discharged COVID-19 cases in the country to 229,650 and 3,136 deaths linked to the virus since the outbreak of the pandemic.

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The NCDC, via its verified website on Monday morning, said that the additional figure coronavirus infections in the country had moved up to 253,023 as on Sunday.

There was a significant decrease in the number of infections, with the Sunday figure, compared to 89 reported on Saturday.

The centre said that no patients died of coronavirus-related complications on Sunday, while 317 patients were successfully treated and discharged on Sunday.

It added that the nationwide death toll from the virus remained 3,135 and in total, 229,019 people had been discharged from hospitals after their symptoms improved.

According to NCDC, Lagos State led the chart with nine new infections, followed by FCT with six cases, Delta with four cases, Rivers with two and Kano State with one case.

It noted that the Sunday report included zero case reported from Bauchi, Bayelsa, Ekiti, Kaduna, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Plateau, and Sokoto while the four cases reported in Delta were backlogs from January 28, (3) and January 29, (1).

The agency said with the additional figures, the caseload in the country reached 253,020 and the death toll remained 3,135 since the outbreak of the pandemic.

It noted that the one death reported on Saturday was a backlog from Imo which occurred on January 24.

According to NCDC’s latest COVID-19 situation report spanning from January 17 to January 23, the number of new infections decreased to 1,258 from 2,617 reported in the second week of the year.

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The NCDC, via its verified website on Thursday morning, also disclosed that one  person  was  confirmed to have died of COVID-19 complications within the period, bringing the country’s fatality toll to 3,134.

The additional 75 cases represent a significant decline from 250 cases reported on Tuesday.

According to it, of  the new cases, Lagos State reported 33, Gombe had 13, and FCT had 11 cases.

Osun State accounted for eight of the infected, Edo and Rivers reported three cases each, Plateau had two, Kaduna and Kano reported one case each.

The agency said that 646 people recovered from the virus in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of recoveries to 228,137 in the country.

According to it, as of January 26, 2022 the country has recorded 252,753 cases of the novel coronavirus cases, while 228,137 people have recovered from it.

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The NCDC via its verified website on Wednesday morning also disclosed that seven people were confirmed to have died of COVID-19 complications on Tuesday, bringing the country’s fatality toll to 3,133.

The country’s daily coronavirus infections in the last nine days has been recording below 300 .

It also added that the seven deaths were backlogs from Ondo State between January 11 and 23.

The agency noted that with 250 people testing positive for the virus on Tuesday, the country’s COVID-19 tally jumped to 252,678.

It said that the number of people who had recuperated from the disease surged to 227,491, after 487 patients were discharged on Tuesday.

According to the public health agency, Lagos State, which has contributed more to the surge in COVID-19 cases in the country, recorded 122 cases.

The NCDC noted that the 122 cases reported in Lagos State included additional 90 backlogs from January 20 – 23.

It said that Gombe, FCT, Kaduna and Borno recorded 44, 20, 19 and 16 infections respectively.

Also, Delta and Ondo reported seven cases each, while Rivers had six cases, as Jigawa and Oyo reported three cases each.

Bauchi, Kano and Ogun reported one case each.

The agency added that no case was reported from Ekiti, Nasarawa, Osun, Plateau, Sokoto, and Zamfara.

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The NCDC disclosed via it verified website on Tuesday morning that a state in the North-East, Taraba, had 98 new infections which included 74 backlogs from January 1 to 23.

It said Rivers, a state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria reported 66 cases, while Lagos, a state in southwestern and the second most populous city in Africa reported 35 infections as the FCT reported 20 cases.

Other states with new cases include Delta -13, Kwara – three, Abia – two, Nasarawa – two and Plateau – two.

According to the public health agency, no case was reported from Cross River, Ekiti, Kano, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Sokoto.

It said that there were now a total of 252,428 COVID-19 cases in Nigeria where 3,126 people had lost their lives to the pandemic since February 27, 2020 when the country reported its first COVID-19 case.

The NCDC noted that 596 people were discharged on Monday across isolation centres in the country, while the total number of recoveries in the country stood at 227,004.

Nigeria with estimated population of over 206 million, has tested about 4,055,877 people for the coronavirus infection since the virus outbreak.

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