Chidi Samuel| Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 503 new COVID-19 cases as the country’s total infections neared the 30,000-mark.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the disclosure in a statement via via its official Twitter handle.
As usual, Lagos, the country’s epicentre of the pandemic reported the highest number of new cases with 154.
Other states with new cases include Edo 54, FCT 41, Enugu 34, Rivers 30, Benue 24, Osun 20, Kaduna 15, Kwara 13, Abia 9, Borno 8, Plateau 6, Taraba 5, Ogun 3, Kano 3, Kebbi 2, Nasarawa 2, Bayelsa and Gombe recorded 1 case each.
According to the health agency, Nigeria’s COVID-19 burden currently stands at 29,879 cases with 12,108 discharges and 669 deaths.
The tweet read, 503 new cases of COVID19Nigeria;
Lagos-153
Ondo-76
Edo-54
FCT-41
Enugu-37
Rivers-30
Benue-24
Osun-20
Kaduna-15
Kwara-13
Abia-9
Borno-8
Plateau-6
Taraba-5
Ogun-3
Kano-3
Kebbi-2
Nasarawa-2
Bayelsa-1
Gombe-1
29,879 confirmed
12,108 discharged
669 deaths
-AFDB warns 50m Africans risk extreme poverty over COVID-19
Nearly 50 million Africans could be driven into extreme poverty in the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the African Development Bank said Tuesday.
Roughly a third of the continent – 425 million people – was already expected to live below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day in 2020, the AfDB said in its African Economic Outlook, forecasting that the situation would further deteriorate.
After Oceania, Africa is the least affected continent in the pandemic, recording nearly 500,000 infections and almost 11,700 deaths, according to an AFP tally on Tuesday.
But the health crisis and ensuing lockdowns have destroyed jobs, crippled incomes and devastated economies continent-wide.
“Between 28.2 and 49.2 million more Africans could be pushed into extreme poverty” this year and next, the AfDB report said, with the first figure the baseline prediction and the latter the worst-case scenario.
The Abidjan-based institution, one of the world’s five largest multilateral development lenders, expects Africa to suffer a major recession, with GDP forecast to contract between 1.7 percent to 3.4 percent this year.
With AFP reports
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