The Statistician-General of the Federation, Yemi Kale, has given assurance that a hybrid digitalized form of data collection for Covid 19 impact establishment survey would soon be launched in Nigeria.
Kale, disclosed this during the 2021 first Bi-annual meeting of the National Consultative Committee on Statistics, holding in Jos Plateau with Statisticians General of the 36 States in attendance.
In his keynote address, Statistician-General of the federation Yemi Kale said improving on the quality of statistics is key especially under the Covid-19.
Declaring the Conference open, Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong, represented by the commissioner, Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget, Sylvester Wallanko noted that planning and policy formulation can only be effective when statistics is promoted.
This year’s meeting with the theme statistical production under the Covid 19 pandemic and economic in Nigeria is expected to come up with feasible ways and means of improving the delivery of good statistical information in the country.
( Editor, Omor Bazuaye)
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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