The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on its Facebook official page that the country has recorded 146 new COVID-19 cases and one death on the 19th July,2021. In its update, the centre said the new infections raised the country’s toll to 169,678.
The 146 new cases are reported from 8 states – Lagos (134), Ondo(3), Cross River (2), FCT (2), Kwara (2), Ogun (1), Oyo (1), and Rivers (1)
The NCDC data showed that a total of 164,710 patients have been discharged from hospitals across the nation after treatment.
Meanwhile, the News Agency of Nigeria reported that the NCDC noted that there were, however, more than 2,800 cases that were still active in the country.
The public health agency said the country had tested more than 2.4 million samples for the virus out of the country’s estimated 200 million population.
It is also good to note that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, would continues to coordinate the national response activities
