By Asmua Ahmad
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 16 COVID-19 deaths, raising the total fatality in the country to 1,777.
The NCDC who disclosed this on its official Twitter handle in the early hours of Wednesday, said it has also recorded1,368 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 148,296.
The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the new infections registered today doubled the 574 cases reported on February 15.
It stated that the 1,368 new infections were reported from 27 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The NCDC stated that Anambra State registered the highest infections for the first time since the pandemic broke out in February 2020, in the country.
It noted that of the 1,368 new cases, Anambra posted 344 cases, despite not recording any case the previous day, followed by Oyo State which also witnessed a rise in infections after recording 172 cases and the FCT in the third position confirmed 148 infections.
The agency noted that 107 cases of the virus were found in Benue state, Rivers had 95, Ogun-59, Ondo-56, Ebonyi-53, Kaduna-52, Plateau-46, Kwara-36 and Enugu-30.
NCDC stated that data from Enugu State covered the last two days and a backlog of deaths reported from Abia State.
Other states with registered cases were Akwa Ibom-26, Osun-22, Edo-20, Abia-17, Kano-16, Borno-15, Cross River-10, Delta-8, Gombe-8, Imo-7, Ekiti-5, Sokoto-4, Jigawa-3, Bayelsa-3, Nasarawa-3 and Zamfara-3.
It also added that at least 1,474 people had recovered and been discharged from isolation centres across the country in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people who had been discharged after recovery to 124,483.
It noted that the discharged recorded on Tuesday included 762 community recoveries in Anambra State, 132 in Plateau and 126 in FCT.
It said that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre activated at Level 3 is coordinating response activities nationwide.
The agency said that there were now 22,036 active cases across the country.
Health Reporters gathered that Nigeria has tested 1,441,013 people since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announced on February 27, 2020.
