Nigeria recorded two deaths last week, lowest in seven months

Nigeria records 521 new cases, lowest in 2021

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Nigeria recorded 521 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, the lowest daily infection figure since the beginning of 2021.

This is according to an update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Sunday night.

A total of eight deaths were also recorded from the virus on Sunday.

The eight deaths indicated a significant decrease from the 18 fatalities on Saturday and raised the death toll to 1,839 in total.

With 521 new infections from 20 states, Nigeria now has a total of 152,074 confirmed cases.

After weeks of high infection figures averaging around 1,000 daily cases, the numbers seem to have reduced marginally last week. In the past three days, daily cases have fallen below 700.

Meanwhile, the death toll has remained relatively high with 36 fatalities recorded in the past three days.

Worst still, health experts say the official numbers do not give a “full picture” of the outbreak in the country. They say low testing in many states across the country means infections have been under-reported, a situation considered the biggest challenge in the nation’s management of the outbreak.