{"id":453,"date":"2021-09-23T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/2021\/09\/23\/covid-19-nigerias-infections-hit-203081\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T07:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:23:54","slug":"covid-19-nigerias-infections-hit-203081","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/covid-19-nigerias-infections-hit-203081\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Nigeria\u2019s infections hit 203,081"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), says the country\u2019s COVID-19 cases rose to 203,081 on Wednesday, recording additional 377 new infections.<\/span><\/div>\n


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The NCDC, via its official website, disclosed this on Thursday morning. <\/div>\n
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the additional 377 COVID-19 infections, on Wednesday, indicated a decrease from the 513 cases reported on Tuesday. <\/div>\n
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The NCDC added that the 377 new cases of the coronavirus, bring the total number of infections in the country to 203,081. <\/div>\n
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The agency noted that 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), reported the cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. <\/div>\n
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The NCDC stated that Lagos state reported the highest number on Wednesday with 70 news cases, lower than the 132 cases it recorded the previous day. <\/div>\n
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Amongst others were; FCT-67, Kaduna-38, Edo-36, Rivers-28, Delta-23, Kwara-22, Ondo-18, Plateau-17, Oyo-16, Benue-12, Ekiti-10, Gombe-8, Kano-7, Imo-3 and Jigawa-2. <\/div>\n
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It added that the latest report includes; backlog of 2 confirmed cases for Jigawa for September 16, 2021 and zero cases from Nasarawa, Ogun, Osun and the Sokoto States. <\/div>\n
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The disease center also noted that 231 patients recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country, while it noted that two other people died from the COVID-19 complications. <\/div>\n
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According to it, till date, 203,081 cases have been confirmed, 191,601 cases discharged and 2,666 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. <\/div>\n
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It said that the Country had tested a total of over 2,997,060 million samples from its roughly 200 million population. <\/div>\n
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The NCDC added that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continues to coordinate the national response activities. <\/div>\n
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The NCDC disclosed that there were over 8,806 active cases across the country. <\/div>\n
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