65 COVID-19 patients discharged from treatment centers – NCDC

Temitope Adetunji
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday disclosed that an additional 65 patients who earlier tested positive for the COVID-19 virus have been discharged after recovery.
NCDC revealed this on its official Twitter page on Friday.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the nation’s total recoveries had increased to 154,643, in the last 24 hours.

The public health agency declared that the country recorded no deaths from COVID-19 on Friday, making it the 11th consecutive day that nobody died from the virus.

It also stated that the country recorded 45 new infections on Friday, from seven states and the Federal Capital Territory, pushing the caseload to 164,633 in the country.

The agency remarked that the new figure, which was lower than the 100 recorded on April 22, increased the total number of infections in the country to 164,633.

It added that Lagos state had the highest figure of new cases on Friday, followed by Rivers and Delta.

“The 45 new cases were reported from Lagos-26, Rivers-10, Delta-3, Kano-2, Akwa Ibom-1, FCT-1, Kaduna-1, and Nasarawa-1,” it stated.

The agency noted that since the pandemic outbreak in Nigeria in February 2020, the country had carried out over 1.8 million tests.

It added that the nation’s active case stood at 9,990.

The public health agency noted that a multi-sectoral National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, had continued to coordinate the national response activities in the country.

Meanwhile, the country has vaccinated over a million clients barely two months after the country received four million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines.

The vaccine was from COVAX, an UN-backed effort that promises access to free vaccines for up to 20 percent of participating countries’ population.

”The current phase of vaccination covers health workers and other frontline workers although Nigerians from other groups are also getting vaccinated.

”The inoculation of frontline health workers in some states has been completed, and attention has shifted to older adults, aged 65 and above.

“We have been careful to ensure that only those who are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the current phase are being vaccinated.

“These include health workers and their support staff, other frontline workers, strategic leaders, and in the last few days, we have also included those who meet the age requirements,” it said.

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