Nigeria records highest daily COVID-19 infections of 1,664

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed new 1,664 coronavirus cases in its update for January 6, 2021, the country’s highest single-day count since the index case of the virus was confirmed on February 27, 2020.

With the 1,664 new infections recorded across 22 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Wednesday, Nigeria’s total number of confirmed cases has now exceeded 94,000.

At least 1,000 fresh positive samples have been confirmed for three consecutive days — over 6,000 new cases have been recorded in the past six days.

Five persons were confirmed to have died of COVID-19 complications on Wednesday, increasing the current fatality toll to 1,324.

However, the number of new recoveries increased on Wednesday with 930 people discharged across the country.

The NCDC said, “Our discharges today include 388 community recoveries in Lagos state, 261 in Kaduna state, 87 in Plateau state and 20 in Imo state managed in line with guidelines.”

A total of 94,369 cases have now been confirmed across the 36 states and the FCT, but 77,299 people have recovered.

Details of the 1664 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria are as follows:

Lagos-642

FCT-407

Plateau-160

Kaduna-83

Rivers-62

Adamawa-47

Nasarawa-38

Abia-29

Edo-28

Anambra-27

Niger-24

Ogun-24

Imo-15

Oyo-14

Kano-12

Osun-12

Borno-9

Delta-7

Enugu-7

Bauchi-5

Ekiti-5

Sokoto-5

Jigawa-2