By Saidu Idris
365Daily – Nigeria registered 284 additional COVID-19 infections and nine related deaths across 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday.
This is according to data made available by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on its verified website on Tuesday, October 12, 2021.
The new figure is an increase from the 78 cases reported on Sunday, bringing the total of new infections in the country to 207,978.
A breakdown showed that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) led with 67 cases, followed by Kaduna and Rivers States with 33 and 31 cases respectively.
Anambra State recorded 23 cases, Lagos and Osun states in the South-west recorded 22 cases, while Cross River and Edo recorded 18 cases respectively.
Others are Ondo State with 13 cases, Plateau, Nasarawa and Kwara States, with 12, six and five cases respectively, while Imo State recorded four cases.
Benue and Niger States recorded three and two cases respectively and five states comprising Delta, Ekiti, Jigawa, Ogun and Oyo States recorded a case each.
The NCDC added that two states, Bauchi and Kano recorded no cases on Monday.
The agency also added that the total number of deaths in the country rose to 2,756; 195,626 cases cleared and discharged, while 9,597 were still fighting the infection.
According to the NCDC, over 3,142,971 million samples of the virus have been tested.
It maintained that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continues to coordinate the national response activities.