While Nigeria’s COVID-19 daily infection figures have significantly reduced in the past two weeks, the death tally from the disease has remained high indicating that the country is not yet out of the pandemic.
About 1,982 deaths have now been recorded from coronavirus in Nigeria after 13 more people died on Monday, health authorities said.
This is according to an update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Monday night.
Monday’s fatality figure is higher than the five deaths recorded on Sunday and raised the fatality toll in the past six days to 75. Nigeria has thus averaged about 12 deaths per day in the past week compared to the average of about five daily deaths since the virus was first detected in the country.
Nigeria also recorded 371 new COVID-19 cases Monday bringing the total number of known cases in the country to 158,906.
Nigeria suffered its worst phase of the COVID-19 outbreak between December and January as daily infections averaged over 1,000.
Recently, however, infection figures have been relatively low with daily cases hovering between 200 and 700 in the past two weeks except for the 709 infections recorded on Thursday and the 195 recorded Saturday.
But health experts believe the official data under-reports both infections and deaths because of the country’s limited testing capacity.
