By GRACE AUDU, Abuja –
The total number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in Nigeria rose to 163,793 with the recording of 57 new cases on Sunday nationwide.
This was made known by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), via its official twitter handle @NCDCgov
“As of April 11, 2021, 57 new confirmed cases were recorded. There was no death recorded nationwide,” it said.
According to the health agency, “Till date, 163,793 cases have been confirmed; 154,107 cases have been discharged and 2,060 deaths have been recorded in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“The 57 new cases were reported from seven states namely, FCT (20), Lagos (19), Bayelsa (7), Kaduna (4), Rivers (3), Osun (3) and Jigawa (1).”
The NCDC also restated that a multi-sectoral National Emergency Operations Centre, activated at Level 3, had continued to coordinate the national response activities in the country.
It further disclosed that Nigeria had tested 1,803,177 people since the first confirmed case of the disease was announced on Feb. 27, 2020.
Nigeria’s coronavirus active cases stood at 7,626 in the past 24 hours, the public health agency added.