COVID-19: Nigeria Records No New Deaths In Two Days

…..Infection figures in Nigeria have remained low in the past three weeks.

Again, there were no fatalities recorded from COVID-19 in Nigeria on Friday just as it was a day earlier, with the total death tally in the country still 2,027.

This is according to an update published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Friday night.

Friday is the third day this week that nobody died from the virus within a 24-hour cycle. Nobody died of the highly contagious disease also on Sunday.

Also, there has been a steady run of low daily infection figures in the country.

Infection figures in Nigeria have remained low in the past three weeks with 130 new cases recorded from 13 states on Friday.

The new daily figure is slightly lower than the 135 on Thursday. The 120 new cases reported Sunday was the lowest figure this year.

Thursday’s figure raised the total number of infections in the country to 161,539, according to NCDC data.

Specifics
The 130 new cases were reported from 13 states – Lagos (46), Ogun (19), Kwara (18), FCT (12), Kaduna (10), Ekiti (6),Abia (5), Edo(3), Sokoto(3), Osun (3), Niger (2), Oyo (2),and Akwa Ibom (1).

Lagos had the highest figure on Friday with 46 new cases followed by Ogun and Kwara with 19 and 18 infections respectively.