COVID-19: Nigeria records 877 new infections, total case count now 150,246

TNT Newsline February 19, 2021 2 minutes read

By ABUJAH RACHEAL

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 877 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 150,246.

The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle late Thursday.

It also registered additional 16 COVID-19 deaths, raising the total fatality in the country to 1,803 in the past 24 hours.

It said that the 877 new infections were reported from 26 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The agency reported that Lagos state recorded the highest number of the day followed by Kaduna State.

“Lagos 273, Kaduna 87, Rivers 58, Akwa Ibom 47, Ebonyi 47, Edo 46, Ogun 46, Abia 34, Imo 34, Kano 34, Oyo 26, Osun 22, and Gombe 20.

“Others are Ekiti 19, Cross River 15, FCT 15, Plateau 11, Enugu nine, Kebbi eight, Borno seven, Niger six, Bayelsa five, Nasarawa four, and Kwara two, while Katsina and Sokoto reported one case each,” it stated.

According to the agency, 126,417 people have been released from various isolation centres across the country since the onset of the pandemic.

The public health agency said that cases discharged as of Thursday included 275 community recoveries in Lagos State and 91 community recoveries in Kwara State managed in line with its guidelines.

It said that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, is coordinating response activities nationwide.

The Nigeria’s public health institute said that there were now over 22 thousand active cases across the country in the last 24 hours.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the country has tested 1,441,013 people since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announced on Feb. 27, 2020. (NAN)