An epidemiologist and director center for infectious disease research Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano, Professor Isah Abubakar says human and environmental factors in addition to the new varient of the covid19 are responsible for the spike of coronavirus pandemic during the second wave of the deadly disease.
Professor Abubakar told ait.live that his center runs nearly 200 tests per day from samples received from the kano state tasks force on covid19, hospitals and individuals.
Between 20th december 2020 and 7th january 2021,kano state recorded 356 new positive cases of covid19 out of 58979 samples tested.
Even when community testing was conducted during lockdown period the numbers were not as high as is obtained now.
Professor isah Abubakar said the Harmattan season associated with flu and the impression that the virus no longer spread after ease of lockdown explain the rise in infection as people do not observe prevention protocols.
On the càpacity of the center to meet demands for testing, the director said the center is equipped with new machines.
Testing is being run at other centers located at Aminu Kano teaching hospital and Muhammadu Buhari specialist hospital.
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.
