Nigeria recorded its highest number of COVID-19 cases in one week on Friday, May 15, 2020, as The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) revealed that 288 new infections were recorded in the the country.
The agency made this known via a tweet on its verified official handle just before midnight.
Before this latest spike, the country had been witnessing a drop in the number of infections. The country recorded 242 cases on Monday, May 11, 2020. The figures dropped to 146 cases on Tuesday while the country recorded 184 and 193 cases respectively on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday saw the country recorded 288 new cases.
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This has pushed the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 5,445 recorded in 34 states and the federal capital territory (FCT).
The number of recoveries increased from 1,180 to 1,320, while four fatalities were recorded, bringing the total number of deaths to 171.
Also, after almost one week of recording a steady drop in its number of cases, from 183 COVID-19 cases on May 7 to as low as 58 cases on May 14, the infection rate in Lagos saw a significant spike on Friday with the NCDC saying 179 new cases had been discovered in Lagos, the country’s hotspot.
In Kaduna, 20 new cases were recorded, 15 each in both Katsina and Jigawa, 13 in Borno, 11 in Ogun, eight in Kano, seven in the FCT, four each in Niger and Ekiti, three each in Oyo, Delta and Bauchi, two in Kwara and one in Edo.
So far, 1320 patients have been discharged while 171 people have lost their lives to the pandemic.
