COVID-19: Nigeria Records 1,368 New Cases

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday, December 20, 2021, announced one thousand, three hundred and sixty-eight (1,368) confirmed new cases of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19 in the country.

New cases of the pandemic have continued to rise for seven consecutive weeks across Africa including Nigeria, signaling the third wave as the country confirmed the deadly Delta variants.

The country has also confirmed a new variant of COVID-19 called Omicron.

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“Today’s report includes:

7 confirmed cases reported from Anambra state for the 19th December 2021

26 confirmed cases reported from Kaduna state for the 19th (10) & 20th (16) December 2021

11 discharged cases reported from Anambra state for 19th December 2021

13 Discharged cases reported from FCT for 20th December 2021

0 cases reported from Sokoto State,” NCDC said.

As of Monday, December 20, there are 10,610 active cases in Nigeria.

1,368 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Confirmed Cases:

225,255

Discharged:

211,660

Deaths:

2,985

Breakdown of cases by state;

Lagos-844

FCT-209

Oyo-58

Abia-51

Ondo-39

Ogun-30

Kaduna-26

Delta-20

Akwa Ibom-17

Osun-15

Ekiti-12

Anambra-7

Zamfara-7

Cross River-6

Kano-6

Kwara-6

Rivers-6

Bauchi-5

Gombe-3

Plateau-1

A breakdown of cases by the state via the NCDC portal