Nigeria on COVID 3rd Wave, records cases highest in six months
Nigeria on COVID 3rd Wave, records 747 cases, highest in six months
Figures from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) show that the West African country recorded 747 COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours. This is the highest infection figure recorded by the country in the last six months.
Reports say just around 1% of Nigeria’s population of around 200 million has been vaccinated so far after some 4 million doses of AstraZeneca Vaccine were administered in the country.
Officials say the county is beginning to experience a third wave of the pandemic largely driven by the more contagious Delta variant.
This is happening amid low vaccination rates and a strike by doctors in public hospitals.
The government also placed at least six states on the red list over a possible surge.
Just around 1% of Nigeria’s population of around 200 million has been vaccinated so far.
The country has recorded more than 176,000 cases of the virus with more than 2,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic last year.
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