Six people died in Nigeria Tuesday from COVID-19 complications as the country witness a slight decline in daily infections from the disease.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in an update on its Facebook page Tuesday night and said 357 new cases were recorded under the last 24 hours indicating a reduction from the 584 reported a day earlier.
The new infections were found in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory FCT, the NCDC said.
According to the disease centre’s update, the new infection figure raised the total number of cases in the country to 183,444.
Active Covid-19 cases in a country also battling one of its sharpest rise in cholera infections have jumped to 13, 756.
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 16 days.
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.
There has been a sharp increase in deaths since the doctors downed tools with 78 fatalities recorded in the past 16 days, according to a review of NCDC data. The figure is more than double of the 31 deaths the disease agency registered in the whole of July.
Breakdown
Of the 357 new cases on Tuesday, Lagos had the highest share recording 170 Infections followed by Ondo with 38, according to the NCDC update.
Gombe came third in log with 34 infections while Ondo and Ekiti states accounted for 20 cases each and the FCT registered 18. Anambra had 16, Oyo reported 13 and Kwara state recorded 10.
The trio of Imo, Bayelsa and Edo states had six infection each.
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, 167,459 have recovered and discharged from hospitals in Nigeria’s 36 states and the FCT.
Over 2.6million samples have been tested for COVID-19 in Nigeria, a country with an estimated 200 million population.
