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By ABUJAH RACHEAL
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC), has registered 51 additional infections of COVID-19, as Katsina led with 34 cases on Saturday.
The NCDC disclosed this in its daily COVID-19 report on Sunday morning .
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 51additional cases reported on Friday, indicated a decreasefrom the 129 cases reported in the country the previous day.
It said with the 51 additional Infections on Saturday, the country’s total number of infections edged up to 213,127.
The agency also registered 11 new deaths, bringingthe total death toll in the country to 2, 960.
The Nigerian Public Health Institute said that the new infections were recorded across five states.
“Katsina (34), Lagos (11), Kano (3), Cross River (2) and Bauchi (1),”
According to the NCDC statistics, a total of 205,491 Nigerians had been discharged from various isolation centres across the country.
In addition, the country had a total of4,676active coronavirus cases, while a total of 3,392,457 blood samples had been tested since the pandemic began across the country on Feb. 27, 2020.
It addedthata multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level two, continued to coordinate the national response activities. (NAN)
