{"id":341081,"date":"2021-04-18T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=341081"},"modified":"2021-04-18T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T12:35:18","slug":"nigerias-active-covid-19-cases-increase-by-39-ncdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=341081","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s active COVID-19 cases increase by 39 \u2014 NCDC"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nigeria\u2019s<\/p>\n

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that the country\u2019s COVID-19 active cases increased by 39, bringing the total number to 7,821.<\/p>\n

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The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Saturday.<\/p>\n

It, however, recorded 60 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 164,207.<\/p>\n

The agency noted that the newly recorded infections were reported across nine states, with Lagos state leading with 22, Rivers 15, Bayelsa 7, and Kaduna 5 cases.<\/p>\n

Others were Ogun 4, Akwa Ibom 3, Osun 2, Kano 1, and Ebonyi 1.<\/p>\n

The NCDC said that no death was registered as of April 17, while the country\u2019s total fatalities stood at 2,061.<\/p>\n

It disclosed that 21 people had successfully been treated and discharged from various isolation centers across the country in the last 24 hours, bringing the recovery number to 154,325.<\/p>\n

The agency said the country had also tested 1,838,174 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was announced on Feb. 27, 2020.<\/p>\n

It noted that a multi-sectoral National Emergency Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, had continued to coordinate the national response activities in the country.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that more than 100 million people globally have been infected 16 months after the detection of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

According to a tally by Johns Hopkins University published on Saturday, the number of global deaths that can be traced to COVID-19 has risen above three million,<\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,408,245 as of Saturday,\u201d the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.<\/p>\n

It said the death toll from the pandemic stood at 117,378, while 3,951,191 patients across the continent had recovered from the disease.<\/p>\n

South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and Egypt are among the African countries with the most cases on the continent, according to the Africa CDC.<\/p>\n

It noted that Southern Africa was the most affected region, followed by Northern Africa and Eastern Africa regions, while central Africa was the least cases.<\/p>\n

South Africa has recorded 1,564,355 COVID-19 cases, Morocco 504,847, while Tunisia was ranked the third on the continent with 281,777 COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that the country\u2019s COVID-19 active cases increased by 39, bringing the total number to 7,821. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Saturday. It, however, recorded 60 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 164,207. The agency noted that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14571,3],"tags":[14052,14575,397],"class_list":["post-341081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-corona-virus","tag-covid-19","tag-ncdc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/341082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}