Nigeria Confirms 1,861 New COVID-19 Cases, Recoveries Surpass 100,000

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Nigeria’s COVID-19 Recoveries surpassed 100,000 on Wednesday, while the country reported 1,861 new cases.

According to the Nigeria Centre for disease control, the country now has a total of 100,365 recoveries out of its 126,160 confirmed cases leaving it with 24,252.
The NCDC says 697 patients were discharged in Lagos on Wednesday, 128 in Rivers and 116 in Plateau State.

Nigeria, however, has continued to battle a surge in cases recording more than a thousand cases daily now as the country and the world battle a second wave of the pandemic.

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A breakdown of the 1,861 cases recorded for the day shows epicenter Lagos topping the list with 773 cases followed by the Federal Capital Territory Abuja with 285 cases.

Oyo State had 138 cases, Rivers – 111, Plateau -92, Nasarawa -83 and Kaduna-59. Others are Enugu -57, Imo-57, Edo-43, Kano-27, Kwara-20, Ebonyi-19, Abia-17, Ogun-12, Osun-12, Katsina-8, Bayelsa-6, Bauchi-5, Delta-5, Borno-4, Jigawa-4, and Zamfara-1.

Confirmed Cases by State

States Affected No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) No. of Cases (on admission) No. Discharged No. of Deaths
Lagos 46,935 8,431 38,205 299
FCT 16,341 5,254 10,963 124
Plateau 7,740 816 6,871 53
Kaduna 7,458 732 6,669 57
Oyo 5,232 1,046 4,110 76
Rivers 5,093 701 4,313 79
Edo 3,689 571 2,982 136
Ogun 3,263 557 2,664 42
Kano 2,889 390 2,423 76
Delta 2,249 460 1,737 52
Ondo 2,222 175 2,000 47
Kwara 1,887 308 1,540 39
Katsina 1,812 84 1,701 27
Enugu 1,738 296 1,421 21
Nasarawa 1,720 1,382 325 13
Gombe 1,581 167 1,372 42
Osun 1,470 329 1,109 32
Ebonyi 1,393 166 1,197 30
Abia 1,220 114 1,094 12
Bauchi 1,136 36 1,083 17
Imo 1,046 239 790 17
Borno 900 90 774 36
Akwa Ibom 783 302 471 10
Benue 749 196 535 18
Anambra 720 366 334 20
Sokoto 707 31 650 26
Niger 688 257 417 14
Bayelsa 661 74 563 24
Adamawa 631 363 240 28
Ekiti 532 89 435 8
Jigawa 450 49 390 11
Taraba 349 101 233 15
Kebbi 267 51 203 13
Yobe 221 14 199 8
Zamfara 194 17 170 7
Cross River 189 -2 179 12
Kogi 5 0 3 2

So far, Nigeria has conducted 1,270,523 tests with calls for more testing. Earlier on Wednesday, the NCDC said in a tweet that had since last week commenced a series of training for healthcare workers on the use of #COVID19 Antigen Rapid Diagnostic test(Ag-RDTs) kits in FCT.

“The correct use of the approved Ag-RDTs will increase the pace of testing, tracing and providing care for #COVID19 patients,” it said.

Preparing for the future

On Wednesday, as the world continued to battle the pandemic, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates warned that the world must prepare for the next pandemic as it would for war, including the investment of tens of billions of dollars each year.

“We can’t afford to be caught flat-footed again,” wrote the Microsoft co-founder and his wife Melinda in an annual missive.

“The threat of the next pandemic will always be hanging over our heads — unless the world takes steps to prevent it.”

To avoid future destruction on the scale of that caused by Covid-19, “pandemic preparedness must be taken as seriously as we take the threat of war,” Gates said.

“Stopping the next pandemic will require spending tens of billions of dollars per year — a big investment, but remember that the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to cost the world $28 trillion,” he added.

“The world needs to spend billions to save trillions (and prevent millions of deaths).”

The American, ranked the third-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes, urged rich countries to provide the bulk of the investment, pointing out that their governments stand to benefit most.

Investments in future diagnostic and vaccination technologies should be supplemented by “a global alert system, which we don’t have at large scale today,” allowing epidemics to be detected and responded to early, the letter said.

Gates famously sounded the alarm about the risk of global pandemics at a 2015 TED conference.

He now advocates the creation of a team of around 3,000 fully trained, professional pandemic “firefighters” available on permanent alert.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has already invested $1.75 billion to fight the coronavirus pandemic, as well as promoting and funding inoculation projects in developing countries.