Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections surged on Wednesday to 535, the biggest daily increase in the country since March 4, 2021, when 708 cases was registered.
Nigeria also recorded five additional COVID-19 related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 2,139.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Thursday morning via its official Twitter handle that the additional 535 cases registered was an increase in the previous high figure of 404, which was reported on July 27 as the highest daily record in four months.
The public health institute said that Nigeria’s total infections rose to 172,263 as at July 28, 2021 with a total of 164,886 recoveries recorded nationwide.
The NCDC said that the country’s active cases stands at over 4,000.
And on Wednesday, 49 patients were recovered and discharged from various isolation centres in the country.
It noted that the country has also tested more than 2.4 million samples for the virus out the country’s roughly 210 million population.
The public health agency said that the infection rates have largely been concentrated in Lagos State, which is the country’s virus epicenter.
It recorded the highest number on Wednesday’s infection tally with 219 out of the 535 daily total. However, this was a decline from its previous high figures of 356 recorded on Tuesday.
Lagos State was followed by Akwa-Ibom with 142 new cases, Oyo with 47, Rivers with 17, Jigawa and Edo 13 each, Ekiti and Bayelsa 11 each, Ondo -10, Osun-9, Plateau-8, Ogun and Kaduna 7 each, Kano and the FCT 5 each, while Gombe and Nasarawa reported 4 and 3 respectively.
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