Nigeria Records 443 More COVID-19 Cases, Total Infections Now 45,687

 

Nigeria has recorded 443 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing its total infections to 45,687.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this on Friday night via Twitter.

The new infections were recorded Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory and 17 other states of the federation.

Unlike previous cases, Plateau overtook Lagos by 33 cases thus recording 103 infections with the nation’s commercial capital trailing behind with 70 cases.

The FCT, on the other hand, came third on the list with 60 cases.

Other states with new infections include Ondo – 35, Edo and Rivers – 27, Kaduna – 20, Osun – 19, Borno and Oyo – 18, Kwara – 11, Adamawa – 9, Nasarawa – 7, Gombe – 6, Bayelsa and Imo – 4, Bauchi and Ogun – 2 and Kano – 1.

 

Global Update

The new coronavirus has killed at least 715,343 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Friday.

At least 19,133,340 cases have been registered in 196 countries and territories. Of these, at least 11,319,300 are now considered recovered.

The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.

Many countries are testing only symptomatic or the most serious cases.

On Thursday, 7,377 new deaths and 282,381 new cases were recorded worldwide. Based on the latest reports, the countries with the newest deaths were the United States with 2,060, followed by Brazil with 1,237, and India with 886.

The United States is the worst-hit country with 160,104 fatalities from 4,883,657 cases. At least 1,598,624 people have been declared recovered.

After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 98,493 deaths from 2,912,212 cases, Mexico with 50,517 deaths from 462,690 cases, Britain with 46,413 deaths from 308,134 cases, and India with 41,585 deaths from 2,027,074 cases.

States Affected	No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed)	No. of Cases (on admission)	No. Discharged	No. of Deaths
Lagos	15,627	2,316	13,119	192
FCT	4,241	2,965	1,231	45
Oyo	2,825	1,392	1,402	31
Edo	2,340	174	2,073	93
Rivers	1,911	267	1,591	53
Kano	1,608	264	1,291	53
Delta	1,557	110	1,404	43
Kaduna	1,530	183	1,335	12
Ogun	1,428	200	1,204	24
Plateau	1,294	676	598	20
Ondo	1,243	565	651	27
Enugu	880	377	485	18
Ebonyi	838	19	793	26
Kwara	815	452	342	21
Katsina	746	265	457	24
Borno	634	30	569	35
Abia	625	103	517	5
Gombe	620	68	529	23
Osun	586	273	300	13
Bauchi	574	40	521	13
Imo	472	315	147	10
Nasarawa	360	129	223	8
Benue	356	285	64	7
Bayelsa	342	31	290	21
Jigawa	322	3	308	11
Akwa Ibom	234	55	171	8
Niger	226	81	133	12
Adamawa	176	80	85	11
Ekiti	159	81	76	2
Sokoto	154	1	137	16
Anambra	142	41	83	18
Kebbi	90	0	82	8
Zamfara	77	1	71	5
Taraba	72	13	55	4
Cross River	68	27	33	8
Yobe	67	2	57	8
Kogi	5	0	3	2

 

The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its population is Belgium with 85 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Britain with 68, Peru 62, Spain 61, and Italy 58.

China excluding Hong Kong and Macau has to date declared 84,565 cases, including 4,634 deaths, and 79,088 recoveries.

Latin America and the Caribbean overall has 213,018 deaths from 5,319,101 cases, Europe 212,415 deaths from 3,301,728 infections and the United States and Canada 169,108 deaths from 5,002,218 cases.

Asia has 69,099 fatalities from 3,259,246 cases, the Middle East 29,306 deaths from 1,218,513 cases, Africa 22,098 deaths from 1,010,380 cases, and Oceania 299 deaths from 22,154 cases.

As a result of corrections by national authorities or late publication of data, the figures updated over the past 24 hours may not correspond exactly to the previous day’s tallies.