Nigeria extends gradual easing by 2 weeks
Nigeria has recorded additional 216 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 6,175.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC confirmed this on Monday in a tweet via its official handle, disclosing that 74 new cases were found in Lagos, 33 in Katsina, 19 in Oyo, and 17 in Kano.
Other states with new cases include Edo with 13, Zamfara 10, the trio of Ogun, Gombe and Borno with eight each, the duo of Bauchi and Kwara with seven each, the FCT with four, Kaduna and Enugu with three each and Rivers state with two new cases.
The health agency also reported that 1,644 cases have now been successfully treated and discharged, while 191 persons have died.
Nigeria extends gradual easing by 2 weeks
Meanwhile, Nigerian authorities extended the phased easing of lockdown across the country to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The Federal Government announced on Monday it would impose precisely targeted lockdown measures in areas that report rapid increases in cases of the coronavirus, while the phased reopening of the economy as a whole would go ahead more slowly than planned.
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Meanwhile, the government has extended a full lockdown in Kano state, where authorities are investigating a spate of mysterious deaths that have not been linked to coronavirus. Kano has the second-highest number of confirmed cases in the country after Lagos.
The government said its phased reopening of strict lockdowns in Lagos, Abuja, and Ogun states would go more slowly than initially planned, and the current phase of gradual reopening would last a further two weeks.
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