The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC) on Wednesday, announced that 930 new confirmed covid-19 cases were recorded in Nigeria, taking the total tally to 75,062 confirmed cases and 1,200 deaths, year to date.
This represents the highest ever number of daily cases recorded since the outbreak. The last time Nigeria recorded a daily number of Covid-19 cases in this region was on the 11th of December 2020, when 796 cases were recorded, followed by 790 cases recorded on 1st.
The spike in new cases suggested a looming second wave of the pandemic. However, it is clear that Nigeria has slipped into the second wave of the pandemic. In the past 16 days, Nigeria has recorded 7,507 new cases of the disease, which is 59.6% higher than the total 4,704 cases recorded in the month of November.
Recall that the Federal Government closed some isolation centres across the country due to the lack of patients and a significant decline in the number of cases.
The discovery of a Covid-19 vaccine has seen many take the pandemic as a mere sickness that can be easily treated, which has reduced the fear of disease nationwide.
