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18 die of COVID-19 complications in Nigeria as cases rise again
Nigeria has seen a spike in COVID-19 daily infections and deaths twice this week.
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Eighteen people died in Nigeria on Thursday as a result of COVID-19 complications, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has said.
The new fatality figure raised the death toll to 2, 117 in total, the agency said on its official twitter handle.
Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos, recorded 105 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours raising the total tally on Thursday to 122.
According to the NCDC update, Nigeria’s infection total is now 166, 682 so far.
Thursday’s fatality and infection tally are significantly higher than the zero deaths and 17 cases recorded a day earlier, indicating another daily spike in infections this week.
Tue Jun 01 2021
A few weeks ago, an unidentified disease killed six persons in Koya village of Minjibir Local Government Area of Kano State. It also left many others hospitalised.
It wasn’t long before the disease was identified to be cholera, and an outbreak confirmed by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
According to a report by the NCDC, there were 158 suspected cases of cholera in the recent outbreak in the state, with 11 deaths recorded.
Daily Trust had earlier spoken to the village head of the community, Sulaiman Muhammad, who confirmed the deaths, adding that about 40 other persons were hospitalised with diarrhoea and vomiting.