Few weeks after the Nigerian Government confirmed Delta COVID-19 variant in the country, the nation’s coronavirus infection has been on the rise.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday announced that 404 infections were reported in 11 States.
Lagos State which has been contributing the highest number reported 356 in the day under review.
Rivers State followed with 18 cases, FCT (7), Ekiti (5), Kaduna (5), Gombe (3), Kano (3), Edo (2), Ogun (2), Bayelsa (1), Plateau (1) and Nasarawa(1).
Thirty-nine COVID-19 patients recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country and no death was recorded on Tuesday.
Gatekeepers News reports that as of July 27, 2021, Nigeria has confirmed a total of 171728 cases which include 164837 recoveries and 2134 deaths across the federation.
Meanwhile, the NCDC said 10 cases of Delta COVID-19 variant has been confirmed in the country. The first case was announced on July 8, 2021.
“With sequencing efforts, we have detected 10 cases which are confirmed to be the Delta variant.
”We are working hard to ensure genomic surveillance of travellers’ samples and to scale up our genomic sequencing capacity.
“While doing this, we are scaling up our testing capability, by the rollout of rapid Diagnostic Test Kits (RTDs), in selected states nationwide.
“As we have mentioned before, we encourage congregate settings, such as hospitals, schools, workplaces and correctional facilities, to take advantage of the WHO, approved RTDs kits to detect cases promptly,” NCDC boss Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu said.
