COVID-19 infections rise in Lagos as NCDC records 442 fresh cases

Lagos State recorded an upsurge in daily new COVID-19 cases as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported additional 422 infections for Monday, August 9, 2021.

The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Tuesday morning.

It confirmed that the additional 422 cases were from nine states and the Federal Capital Territory.

The agency said that Lagos was standing at a dire inflection point, with the coronavirus cases surging and most of its population not yet fully vaccinated.

Driving the latest wave was the highly contagious Delta variant with Lagos continuing to report more than half of the daily cases in the country.

The state recorded the highest cases with 190 out of the 422 additional Infections.

The public health agency tracking the coronavirus case surges in states across the country said that the additional coronavirus cases were rising across the country with 86 in Rivers.

Ogun recorded 85, Oyo, 22; while FCT had 20, Kwara had 7, Edo, 5; Abia, 4; and Bayelsa, 3.

The NCDC announced that 219 people had recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Saturday.

It said that till date, 165,982 recoveries had been recorded nationwide in 36 states and the FCT.

According to it, the country had tested more than 2.5 million samples for the virus out of the roughly 200 million population.

It stated that the country’s COVID-19 average test positivity rate was six per cent.

The agency said that five new deaths were recorded on Monday, raising the total number of fatalities in the country to 2,192