Nigeria's Covid-19 updates for September 18th, 2021

Nigeria has recorded additional 433 Covid-19 infections in 16 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), made the announcement, saying two Covid-19 related deaths were also recorded.

The new cases bring the total number of infections in the country to 203,514.

The agency noted that the FCT led the infections chart, recording 191 cases and beating Lagos, which logged 79 cases. Anambra in eastern Nigeria also reported 63 cases.

Others are Rivers (27), Plateau (13), Oyo (10), Delta (9), Ondo (8), Edo (7), Gombe (6), Akwa Ibom (5), Borno (5), Ekiti (4), Bayelsa (2), Zamfara (2), Enugu (1), and Kano (1).

The NCDC noted that a total of 191,950 Nigerians have been discharged nationwide.

The centre said that “2,997,060 million people have been tested from its roughly 200 million population.”

The NCDC added that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level II, continues to coordinate the national response activities