Senegal’s COVID-19 cases surpassed the 12,000-mark, on Saturday, after 160 more cases were reported by the country’s Health Ministry.
Out of 1,886 tests conducted in the past 24 hours in two qualified labs, the ministry received 160 positive results on Friday, bring the total number of COVID-19 cases to 12,032 in Senegal.
According to the spokesperson of the ministry, Dr Mamadou Ndiaye, the newly confirmed cases contain 67 follow-up contact cases, two imported ones detected at airport, and 91 community transmission cases.
Senegal has been reporting more community transmission cases than follow-up contact cases since over a week.
This is due to the Tabaski festival celebration when many Senegalese travelled back home around the end of July.
With 22 more patients discharged from hospitals and treatment centres, the cumulative number of recoveries reached 7,637 since the outbreak of the pandemic on March 2 in Senegal, Ndiaye added.
The death toll also continues to rise.
With two addition deaths recorded by the health authorities, Senegal now has 251 COVID-19 related deaths, a fatality rate of 2.08 per cent.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 473 new cases of Coronaviruses cases in Nigeria, bringing total number of infections in the country to 177,615.
165,472 have been discharged, while 2,185 deaths have been recorded.
For Saturday’s figure, Lagos state continues to lead others with 323 cases.
Other new infections are as follows;
Akwa Ibom-46
Rivers-41
FCT-20
Ekiti-12
Osun-9
Oyo-9
Ogun-6
Bayelsa-3
Anambra-1
Edo-1
Nasarawa-1
Plateau-1
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed 407 new cases of COVID19 in Nigeria.
The breakdown shows that Lagos has 160, Akwa Ibom -75, and Ondo-51.
Others include Abia-33, Oyo-29, Kaduna-18, Katsina-7, Gombe, and Ogun have 6 each.
Ekiti has 5, Delta-4, FCT-4, Ebonyi-3, Edo, and Niger have 2 each, while Bayelsa and Nasarawa have 1 each.
So far, Nigeria has had 174,315 confirmed cases, with 165,005 discharged and 2,149 deaths.
Today’s report includes 0 cases reported from Kano, Osun, Plateau, Rivers, and Sokoto States.
New infections have remained high in recent weeks after the figures became negligible in the last months before the deadly Delta variant was detected in the country.
As usual, Lagos had the largest figure 211. It is followed by Akwa Ibom with 80. Other new infections are as follows:
Kwara-73
Osun-29
Oyo-17
Rivers-17
Cross River-15
Edo-14
Anambra-9
Ogun-8
Ekiti-6
Bayelsa-4
FCT-4
Plateau-4
Bauchi-2
Nasarawa-2
Kaduna-1
Jigawa-1
This is now 173,908 total confirmed cases in Nigeria with164,994 discharged and 2,149 deaths.
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