The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC says Nigeria recorded 222 new Lassa fever cases and two new deaths in one week across 15states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
The Centre in its weekly situation report on Monday stated that 69
persons are undergoing treatment in treatment centres, adding that there
is a surge in the number of recorded confirmed cases of Lassa fever
across Nigeria. It stated that two deaths were reported from Benue and
Taraba states.
NCDC also explained that 51 new cases were recorded in Bauchi; 76 in
Edo; 46 in Ondo; three in Benue; nine in Taraba; 11 in Kaduna; six in
Plateau; three in Kogi; four in Ebonyi; two in Gombe; one in Katsina;
four in FCT; two in Nasarawa and Enugu; while Cross River and in
Rivers reported one cases each.
The Agency added that it has deployed national response teams to
Nasarawa and FCT, distributed response commodities to states and
treatment centres, and implementation of Lassa fever environmental
response campaign in high burden states by the Federal Ministry of
Environment.
