The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country’s coronavirus infections have surpassed 200,000 since the outbreak of the pandemic 18 months ago when the first positive case was identified in an Italian traveller on Februrary 27, 2020.
The NCDC via its verified website on Wednesday morning said that Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases had jumped to 200,057.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that since the pandemic received global attention in early March, COVID-19 had wreaked havoc across the world, sickening millions and leaving countless patients hospitalised with life-threatening complications.