Five days after facilitating the blockade, Nigerian virus cases rise by 1,354

By David Royal

Nigerian virus cases have witnessed an increase of 1,354 five days after the gradual reduction of the confinement in Lagos, and Abuja began.

The Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday registered 386 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 3,912.

The NCDC also said 10 new patients have been confirmed dead to the virus in the country, bringing the total number of deaths to 117.

Vanguard reports that this is the highest number of cases recorded in a single day in the country.

NCDC said cases have been reported in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

According to him, on May 8, 2020, there were 386 new confirmed cases and 10 deaths in Nigeria.

NCDC noted that the 386 new cases were reported in 20 states: Lagos (176), Kano (65), Katsina (31), FCT (20), Borno (17), Bauchi (15), Nasarawa (14), Ogun ( 13), Plateau (10), Oyo (4), Sokoto (4), Ríos (4), Kaduna (3), Edo (2), Ebonyi (2), Ondo (2), Enugu (1), Imo ( 1), Gombe (1), Osun (1).

The Cross River and Kogi states remain the only states that have not reported COVID-19 cases in Nigeria.

While Lagos remains the epicenter of COVID-19 in Nigeria with 1,667 confirmed cases out of 3912 in Nigeria.

Here is a breakdown of cases by state:

Reports that started after the closure facility in Lagos and Abuja show that Nigeria has registered 1,354 new cases of COVID-19 and 30 new deaths in five days. While 279 patients have been treated and discharged from isolation centers across the country.

Before the reduction of the blockade on May 4, Nigeria had 2,558 confirmed infections, 2,071 active cases, 400 discharged from the country and 87 deaths.

To date, 3,912 cases have been confirmed, 3,116 cases are active, 679 cases have been discharged, and 117 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

Nigeria has 23,835 samples tested in its ongoing campaign against the deadly COVID-19, which is far less than Ghana and South Africa that have conducted more than 100,000 and nearly 200,000 tests so far, with South Africa increasing its daily tests to more than 10,000. a day.

One of the main mandates of the Law that establishes the NCDC is to support all states in the prevention, preparation, detection and response to outbreaks of infectious diseases.

While COVID-19 has been unprecedented, NCDC said it will not budge in supporting the federation’s 36 states.

The agency said that in the past three years, it had supported states in establishing Emergency Operations Centers, rapidly increased laboratory capacity, and provided other resources for state-level health safety.

He added that these resources were now being used for the COVID + 19 response in the country.

Nigeria’s first coronavirus case was recorded in February 2020.

The Lagos State Health Ministry revealed in a statement that the case was an Italian citizen who entered Nigeria on February 25 from Milan, Italy, for a brief business visit. He fell ill on February 26 and was transferred to the Lagos state biosecurity facility for isolation and testing. The patient was later discharged after complete recovery and negative tests twice.

In late December 2019, Chinese public health authorities reported several cases of acute respiratory syndrome in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. Chinese scientists soon identified a new coronavirus as the main causative agent. The disease is now known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the causative virus is called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is a new strain of coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans.

The initial outbreak in Wuhan spread rapidly, affecting other parts of China. Cases were soon detected in several other countries. Outbreaks and clusters of the disease have since been observed in Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and the Americas.

According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, since December 31, 2019 and since May 8, 2020, 3 807 852 cases of COVID-19 (according to the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries) have been reported, including 269 ​​068 deaths.

Cases of:

Africa: 54 130 cases; The five countries that reported the most cases are South Africa (8,232), Egypt (7,981), Morocco (5,548), Algeria (5,182) and Nigeria (3,526).

Asia: 613,471 cases; The five countries reporting the majority of cases are Turkey (133,721), Iran (103,135), China (83,976), India (56,342), and Saudi Arabia (33,731).

America: 1 644 817 cases; The five countries that reported the majority of cases are the United States (1,256,972), Brazil (135,106), Canada (64,922), Peru (58,526) and Ecuador (30,298).

Europe: 1,486,431 cases; The five countries that reported the most cases are Spain (221 447), Italy (215 858), the United Kingdom (206 715), Russia (177 160) and Germany (167 300).

Oceania: 8,307 cases; The five countries that reported the most cases are Australia (6,896), New Zealand (1,141), Guam (151), French Polynesia (60), and Fiji (18).

Other: 696 cases have been reported from international transportation in Japan.

Deaths have been reported from:

Africa: 2,078 deaths; The five countries that reported the most deaths are Algeria (483), Egypt (482), Morocco (183), South Africa (161) and Cameroon (108).

Asia: 21,100 deaths; The five countries that reported the most deaths are Iran (6,486), China (4,637), Turkey (3,641), India (1,886) and Indonesia (930).

America: 97,602 deaths; The five countries that reported the most deaths are the United States (75,670), Brazil (9,146), Canada (4408), Mexico (2,961), and Ecuador (1,654).

Europe: 148 156 deaths; The five countries that reported the most deaths are the United Kingdom (30 615), Italy (29 958), Spain (26 070), France (25 987) and Belgium (8 415).

Oceania: 125 deaths; The 4 countries that reported deaths were Australia (97), New Zealand (21), Guam (5) and the Northern Mariana Islands (2).

Other: 7 deaths have been reported from international transport in Japan.

Vanguard News Nigeria

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