A total of 288 COVID-19 infections were recorded in Nigeria on Monday, the country’s lowest figure since June 8.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) latest figure brings the total number of infections in the country to 44, 129.
Reports say that the latest figure is lower than those recorded in the past four days, as it shows a consistent decline in the rate of infected persons.
Before Monday’s lower figure, Nigeria recorded 304, 386, 462, and 481 daily cases.
But despite the continued decline in the daily figure of confirmed coronavirus infections in Nigeria, there has been a troubling uptick in mystery cases that health experts believe could upset plans of a full opening of public activities across the country.
Meanwhile, the NCDC in its daily update of the infection on its Twitter handle @NCDCgov revealed that eight persons died from the virus on Monday taking the total number of confirmed fatalities from the virus to 896.
The NCDC further revealed that although a total of 20,663 out of a total 44, 129 infected persons have recovered and have been discharged after treatment in the country’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), there are still over 22, 000 active cases in Nigeria.
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According to the NCDC, the new cases were recorded in 15 states in Lagos- 88, Kwara- 33, Osun- 27, FCT- 25, Enugu- 25, Abia- 20, Kaduna- 17, Plateau- 13, Rivers- 13, Delta- 10, Gombe- 8, Ogun- 4, Oyo- 3, Katsina- 1, Bauchi- 1.
Despite the recent growth of community transmission, however, Nigeria has lagged in testing people who showed symptoms of the disease.
The Federal Government had on April 28, announced its target of testing at least two million people within the next three months.
The ambitious 90 days’ target elapsed a few days ago, but Nigeria failed to cover at least 30 per cent of the two million.
Nigeria still conducts only about 900 to 1,400 tests per day across 26 molecular laboratories in the country.
So far, Nigeria has tested only about 290, 000 of its 200 million population.
