Barely a day after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed the country was now in the fourth wave of COVID-19 with over 500 per cent increase in infections across the country, Nigeria recorded 2,123 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, its highest ever daily infection since the outbreak of the virus in February 2020.
The figure was 755 higher than the 1,368 infections recorded on
Tuesday.
The NCDC declared that Lagos State, the country’s epicentre of the
infection, led the new infections table with 1,552 cases.
It was followed by the FCT with 197 cases and Edo with 155 infections.
Rivers recorded 81 cases; Delta (44), Plateau (33), Kwara (30), Kano
State (16), Enugu State (12), Gombe State (2) and Bauchi State (1).
The NCDC stated that with Wednesday’s figure, number of active
COVID-19 cases in Nigeria stood at 12,547.
It stated also that four new COVID-19 deaths were recorded on Tuesday
taking the death toll to 2,989, from 2,985.
Wednesday’s figure took Nigeria’s infection level to 227,378.
There had been 211,761 recoveries and 2,989 COVID-19 fatalities.
The NCDC stated that Nigeria had conducted 3,751,696 sample tests
since the outbreak.
