By Chibuike Nwabuko
Abuja (Sundiata Post) – Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday announced that it confirmed 245 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections to 7261.
The disclosed was made via NCDC Twitter handle on Friday night thus:
The 245 new cases of #COVID19 are recorded as follows:
131-Lagos
16-Jigawa
13-Ogun
12-Borno
9-Kaduna
9-Oyo
9-Rivers
9-Ebonyi
8-Kano
7-Kwara
5-Katsina
3-Akwa Ibom
3-Sokoto
2-Bauchi
2-Yobe
1-Anambra
1-Gombe
1-Niger
1-Ondo
1-Plateau
1-FCT
1-Bayelsa
7261 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria now
Discharged: 2007
Deaths: 221
Meanwhile, as part of efforts to contain and successfully manage COVID-19, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, has validated the first phase of a scientific procedure to extract the RNA of coronavirus.
These extraction kits form part of the components of testing through real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR.
Speaking at the validation in Abuja, Director-General of NABDA, Professor Alex Akpa, explained that the success of the validation was important not only to Nigeria but Africa as a whole.
“The success of this validation shall enable us to massively produce test kits so that more people would be tested for COVID-19, not only in Nigeria but in Africa, he added.
See how the states stand:
