COVID-19 infections have continued to rise globally for more than a month now, with over four million cases reported in the past week alone, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The UN health agency, in its latest update, attributed the uptick to substantial caseload increases of 33 per cent in the Western Pacific and 37 per cent in the Eastern Mediterranean where coronavirus fatalities also rose 48 and 31 per cent, respectively. The number of deaths in the four remaining WHO regions of Africa, Americas, Europe and South-East…
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COVID-19: NCDC confirms 343 new infections
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 343 new infections of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website. The agency also reported two additional COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country to 1,179. It said that the infections brought the total number of cases in the country to 68,303. The NCDC stated that a total of 64,291 patients were discharged from various isolation centres after treatment, including 452 new patients discharged in the last 24 hours. It added…
Read MoreCOVID-19: NCDC announces 152 new infections, 2 new deaths in Nigeria
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has announced 152 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), pandemic in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website. The public health agency said that two additional deaths were recorded as a result of coronavirus complications, raising the death toll in the country to 1,160. With the latest update, the countrys COVID-19 tally of infected people is 64,336, making it the fifth on the list of African countries worst hit, behind Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa. Also, there has…
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