Nigeria COVID-19 toll hits 2,388 with 220 fresh cases

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded 220 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 2,388, TopNaija reports.

The agency revealed this via its Twitter handle on Saturday evening. It also announced that fatalities from coronavirus-related complications have increased to 85.

A breakdown of data from the NCDC showed that 17 patients died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in Nigeria. The data also showed that no new state reported a case in the last 24 hours.

It tweeted, “220 new cases of #COVID19: Lagos – 62, FCT – 52, Kaduna – 31, Sokoto – 13, Kebbi – 10, Yobe – 9, Borno – six, Edo – five, Bauchi – five, Gombe – four, Enugu – four, Oyo – four, Zamfara – three, Nasarawa – two, Osun – two, Ebonyi – two, Kwara – two, Kano – two, and Plateau – two.

Meanwhile, on Saturday Russia reported its largest increase in coronavirus cases with the new infections rising by nearly 10,000 in a single day.

New infections jumped by 9,623 to 124,054 cases, Russian authorities said.

However, the official fatality rate remains low in comparison to countries like Italy, Spain and the United States.

Fifty-seven people died over the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 1,222. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the Russian capital, which has emerged as the epicentre of the contagion, was not yet past the peak of the outbreak.

“The threat is apparently on the rise,” Sobyanin said on his blog earlier on Saturday. Moscow recorded 5,358 new cases, bringing the capital’s total tally to 62,658.