The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, says since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country, a total of 2,036 deaths and 149,882 recoveries have been recorded as at March 25, across the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The NCDC also announced on its official Twitter handle on Thursday that the deaths and recoveries include 97 new cases and five deaths, same day.
It also said that it managed 1,015 community recoveries in FCT and 10 community recoveries in Akwa Ibom State in line with its guidelines.
The agency said that the data from the FCT were recorded over the last two days.
It said that 1,156 people were successfully treated and discharged from different isolation centres across the country in the last 24 hours.
It stated that the new infections were registered from 14 states and the FCT with Lagos state recording 50 cases, Kaduna 12, FCT 10 and Bayelsa 8.
Other states were: Imo 3, Kwara 3, Bauchi 2, Osun 2, as well as Akwa Ibom, Edo, Kano, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, and Zamfara with one case each.
The agency said that there were 11,421 active cases in the country in the last 24 hours.
The country’s daily new cases continued to follow a downward trajectory from an all-time high of 2,314 of new positive cases on Jan. 22, to 86 cases as of March 21.
The country have tested 1,727,467 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was announced on February 27, 2020.
NAN