Opara Ugonna
Rivers State took the lead in the country’s COVID-19 infections as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) logged 828 new cases.
The Rivers State capital, Port Harcourt, registered 188 infections out of the 828 declared by the agency.
The NCDC made this known via its official website, saying that the 188 infections from Rivers indicated a decrease of 29 infections, from 217, recorded on Friday.
Join our WhatsApp ChannelRivers, the third most hit state by the virus in the country, had more cases than Lagos State, the country’s epicenter of the pandemic, with an estimated population of between 17.5 million and 21 million as of 2020.
Lagos state logged 183 cases, a big fall compared to the 906 reported on Friday.
The NCDC indicated that the 97 cases reported by Delta State on Saturday aggregated the cases recorded from Dec. 7–9, 2021.
Other states that registered new cases were; the FCT (82), Oyo (67), Edo (54), Ekiti (34), Plateau (34), Kano (27), Anambra (22), Kaduna (19), Enugu (12), Ogun (5), and Kwara (4).
It stated also that Saturday’s 828 infections brought Nigeria’s tally to 223,483, with 211,522 persons treated and discharged.
The agency added that the country’s active cases across the nation stood at 8,977 as at Saturday.
The centre said that no death was recorded on Saturday as the country’s mortality figure still stands at 2,984.
The NCDC noted that Nigeria had conducted 3,686,403 tests since the virus was announced on Feb. 27, 2020.
