MAYOWA SAMUEL
Nigeria did not record any death from COVID-19 in the last 14 consecutive days, maintaining the death toll of 2,117.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control stated this through its verified website on Saturday. It, however, said infection rate was rising, reporting 13 additional cases as of June 18, 2021.
The new cases, according to NCDC, were from Delta, with nine cases, while Gombe and Rivers, recorded two cases each. The agency noted that five people were discharged following successful treatment at different isolation centres across the country.
It added that 163,540 patients were discharged from hospitals and isolation centres across 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory since the beginning of the pandemic. NCDC further said that the country had successfully tested 2,231,409 samples. It noted that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 2 had continued to coordinate national response activities. The additional new cases bring the total cases in the country to 167,155.
