Nigeria national public health institute for Disease Control, known as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has once again, announced that the country has recorded 533 new COVID-19 cases.
The NCDC in its daily updates on Friday, reported that the country recorded and confirmed a total of 533 new COVID-19 cases, with no deaths, as the number of daily confirmed cases keeps increasing.
The 533 new COVID-19 cases as reported by the national public health institute on Friday, was recorded in 11 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The data shared on Friday 10th December 2021, by the NCDC, shows that Lagos state which has been the epicentre of the pandemic recorded the highest number of confirmed cases, just like on Thursday.
The distribution of the 533 new cases across the 11 states, shows the following distribution:
Lagos-428
FCT-45
Rivers-33
Edo-9
Ogun-8
Oyo-3
Delta-2
Kaduna-2
Gombe-1
Jigawa-1
Kano-1
To date, the total number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 216,451 confirmed cases. It also shows that a total number of 207,661 cases have been discharged, while a total number of 2,981 deaths have been recorded by the NCDC.
Today’s report includes:
20 community discharges reported for FCT for 8th December 2021 and 5 states with zero cases reported: Ekiti, Imo, Ondo, Osun and Sokoto