Nigeria’s COVID-19 recoveries surpassed 100,000 on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, while the country reported 1,861 new cases.
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, the country now has a total of 100,365 recoveries out of its 126,160 confirmed cases leaving it with 24,252.
The NCDC said 697 patients were discharged in Lagos on Wednesday, 128 in Rivers and 116 in Plateau State.
Nigeria, however, has continued to battle a surge in cases recording more than a thousand cases daily now as the country and the world battle a second wave of the pandemic.
1,861 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-773
FCT-285
Oyo-138
Rivers-111
Plateau-92
Nasarawa-83
Kaduna-59
Enugu-57
Imo-57
Edo-43
Kano-27
Kwara-20
Ebonyi-19
Abia-17
Ogun-12
Osun-12
Katsina-8
Bayelsa-6
Bauchi-5
Delta-5
Borno-4
Jigawa-4
Zamfara-1 pic.twitter.com/AXW9APWTyQ— NCDC (@NCDCgov) January 27, 2021
A breakdown of the 1,861 cases recorded for the day shows epicenter Lagos topping the list with 773 cases followed by the Federal Capital Territory Abuja with 285 cases.
So far, Nigeria has conducted 1,270,523 tests with calls for more testing. Earlier on Wednesday, the NCDC said in a tweet that had since last week commenced a series of training for healthcare workers on the use of #COVID19 Antigen Rapid Diagnostic test (Ag-RDTs) kits in FCT.
“The correct use of the approved Ag-RDTs will increase the pace of testing, tracing and providing care for #COVID19 patients,” it said.
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