Chidi Samuel| Nigeria recorded 242 new COVID-19 cases, bringing its total infections to 4,641, the National Centr For Disease Control said on Monday night.
The health agency in a tweet said 88 new cases were recorded in Lagos, 64 in Kano, 49 in Katsina and 13 in Kaduna.
Ogun state had nine cases, Gombe six, Adamawa four, and the FCT three.
Six other states – Ondo, Oyo, Rivers, Zamfara, Borno, and Bauchi had one case each.
The health agency further stated that Nigeria currently has 4,641 confirmed cases of the highly contagious virus with 150 deaths and 902 persons discharged.
The tweet read, ”242 new cases of #COVID19;
88-Lagos
64-Kano
49-Katsina
13-Kaduna
9-Ogun
6-Gombe
4-Adamawa
3-FCT
1-Ondo
1-Oyo
1–Rivers
1-Zamfara
1-Borno
1-Bauchi
4641 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria.”
Discharged: 902
Deaths: 150
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the presidential task force on COVID-19 to pick up Covid-Organics, Madagascar’s self-proclaimed plant-based remedy for coronavirus.
The chairman of the task force and secretary to the government of the federation, Boss Mustapha, made the disclosure at the daily briefing of the task force on Monday.
According to Mustapha, Madagascar donated some of the products to Nigeria through Guinea-Bissau and arrangements were being made to pick them up.
Madagascar has since been giving away thousands of bottles of the product, developed by the state-run Malagasy Institute of Applied Research, to countries across Africa.
“Madagascar has made allocations to various countries, and sent them to Guinea Bissau. We‘re supposed to make arrangements to freight Nigeria’s allocation from Guinea Bissau; it‘ll be subjected to the standard validation process for pharmaceuticals.”
“Mr President has given instructions for the airlifting of Nigeria’s allocation of the Madagascar COVID-19 syrup; also given clear instructions that it must be subjected to the standard validation process for pharmaceuticals; there will be no exceptions for this.”
The herbs, Mustapha stated would be subjected to checks by relevant government agencies in the country.
Leave a Reply