Agency report
Nigeria recorded no COVID-19-related deaths for the tenth consecutive day, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed.
The NCDC made the revelation on its official Twitter handle on Thursday night, April 21, 2021.
As at Thursday, it continued, Nigeria recorded 100 new COVID-19 cases.
The agency added that the new cases were reported in eight states and the Federal Capital Territory.
It said Taraba recorded 64 new cases while Lagos reported 21.
Others are FCT-four, Rivers-three, Akwa Ibom-two, Kaduna-two, Oyo-two, Bauchi-one and Nasarawa-one.
A breakdown of the data showed that 137 persons were discharged on Thursday after testing negative to the COVID-19 virus following treatment, bringing the total number of discharged persons to 154,578.
The NCDC also announced that they were 10,010 active COVID-19 cases in the country.
The agency added that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level III, had continued to coordinate the national response activities in the country.
In a similar development, Nigeria on Thursday vaccinated additional 14,843 persons, bringing the total number of vaccinated people in the country to 1,148,168.
This is barely two months after the country began vaccination after receiving 3.94 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines through COVAX, a UN-backed effort that promises access to free vaccines for up to 20 per cent of participating countries’ population.
The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), reports that the country has conducted 1,870,915 COVID-19 tests since the beginning of the pandemic in Feb. 27, 2020.