The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday, 18th April 2021 announced that 26 new cases of the covid-19 disease were confirmed in the country. This is the lowest daily case tally recorded in over 1 year in Nigeria.
The last time Nigeria recorded less than 26 new cases of the disease was the 13th of April 2020, a little over a year ago. This was during the lockdown implemented by the federal government to curb the spread of the pandemic in the country.
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Highlight of Covid-19 Cases in Nigeria
- A total of 164,233 cases have been confirmed in Nigeria from inception to date, representing the seventh highest in Africa, behind Libya (171,880) and Egypt (516,334).
- According to the NCDC, a total of 1.84 million samples have been tested for the virus in the country, as of 18th April 2021.
- The number of patients still in admission stood at 7,840 having recorded 2,061 covid related deaths and discharged 154,332 patients.
- Lagos State tops the list of states with the highest confirmed cases with 58,119 confirmed cases as of the time of writing this article, followed by Abuja with 19,747 cases.
- A total of 142.02 million cases have been confirmed worldwide, 3.03 million deaths and 120.57 million people have been discharged.
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Nigeria continues to roll out the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine nationwide as about 1.08 million people have received the vaccine to date.
What this means
- The faster the pandemic curve of Nigeria flattens, the faster Nigerians can hope to resume business activities to the fullest capacity and hope to recover from the current economic downturn.
- With headline inflation rate at a record high, food inflation, unemployment, and other macroeconomic indicators soaring, the government will hope to have a covid free nation to run, so as to expedite the country’s recovery.