By Asmau Ahmad
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), says the number of active COVID-19 cases in the country increased to 9,066 with 565 additional cases confirmed on Friday.
The NCDC via its verified website on Saturday posted that the country’s new active case indicates an increase from 9,033 cases, registered on Thursday.
It stated that 76 people had recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Friday, adding that till date, 165,409 recoveries had been recorded nationwide in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The agency stated the country had confirmed 177,142 cases, noting that 2,178 people had died in 36 states and the FCT.
It added that a multi-sectoral national emergency operation centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.
It said that the country had also tested more than 2.5 million samples for the virus out the country’s roughly 200 million population.
The NCDC said that the country’s COVID-19 average test positivity rate was 6 per cent.
