Four people died in Nigeria on Monday from COVID-19 complications as the country commence the second phase of vaccination deemed the silver bullet for the deadly disease.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) who disclosed this in an update on its Facebook page Monday night said 584 new infections were also found in 14 states and the Federal Capital Territory FCT.
According to the update, the new infection figure raised the total number of cases in the country to 183,087.
The death tally rose to 2, 223 in total with the four fatalities on Monday.
The NCDC update came as the strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) which has paralyzed critical activities in hospitals across the country clocked two weeks.
Resident doctors, medical school graduates training to become graduates are pivotal to frontline healthcare in Nigeria as they dominate the emergency wards in its hospitals.
The strike by the doctors is believed to be putting in a precarious situation Nigeria’s response to COVID-19 amid rising numbers coupled with the emergence of other infectious disease.
Active Covid-19 cases in a country also battling one of its sharpest rise in cholera infections have jumped to 13, 554.
Breakdown
Of the 584 new cases on Monday, Lagos had to the highest share recording 201 Infections followed by Rivers with 149, according to the NCDC update.
The FCT came third in log with 82 infections while Ondo state accounted for 73 cases and Ekiti registered 17. Cross River had 13, Oyo reported 11 BD Ogun state recorded 9.
Delta and Ogun states had eight infections each, Bayelsa and Kaduna parred at four cases while Kano and Kwara recorded two cases respectively.
Sokoto came last on the log with a single infection.
Meanwhile, the response from Nigerian health officials in the fight against the pandemic yielded positive results as more than two-third of infected persons in the country have recovered after treatment.
Out of the over 183, 000 total cases, 167,310 have recovered and discharged from hospitals in Nigeria’s 36 states and the FCT.
About 2,589,130 samples have been tested for COVID-19 in Nigeria, a country with an estimated 200 million population.