COVID-19: Nigeria Registers Its Highest Single Day Infection With 2,123 New Cases

Nigeria recorded 2,123 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, its highest ever daily infection since the outbreak of the virus in February 2020.

The figures on Wednesday was 755 higher than the 1,368 infections recorded on Tuesday.

This is the first time Nigeria is experiencing such spike in its daily difference of new infections.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) declared on Wednesday that Lagos State, the country’s epicentre of the infection, led the new infections table on Tuesday with 1,552 cases.

It was followed by the FCT with 197 cases and Edo with 155 infections.

Rivers recorded 81 cases; Delta (44), Plateau (33), Kwara (30), Kano State (16), Enugu State (12), Gombe State (2) and Bauchi State (1).

The NCDC stated that with Wednesday’s figure, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Nigeria stood at 12,547.

This shows an increase of 3,039 when compared with the 9,508 active cases previously recorded.

It stated also that four new COVID-19 deaths were recorded on Tuesday taking the death toll to 2,989, from 2,985.

Wednesday’s figure took Nigeria’s infection level to 227,378.

There had been 211,761 recoveries and 2,989 COVID-19 fatalities.

According to NCDC, Nigeria had so far conducted 3,751,696 sample tests since the outbreak.