NATIONAL: Nigeria records 1,145 Covid-19 cases, highest daily record since Feb

NIGERIA finally crossed the 1,000 mark on its daily count of the Covid-19 infections on Thursday as it recorded 1,145 cases overall covering 23 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

This happened hours after the Presidential Task Force expressed fear that the country may have entered second wave of the coronavirus pandemic after nine months that it recorded its first case of the infection on February 27, 2020.

The new daily record comes 24 hours after the country confirmed its previous highest number of cases with 930 positive samples.

But Thursday night, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 1,145 new Covid-19 cases across 23 states and the FCT in its update for December 17, 2020.

Lagos was top of the list with 459 new positive samples, followed by FCT with 175, and Kaduna with 138.

With the new cases, the country’s total number of confirmed cases has now exceeded 76,000.

One person was confirmed to have died of coronavirus complications on Thursday, increasing the fatality toll to 1,201.

However, 335 people were discharged on Thursday, increasing the current total recovery count to 67,110.

A total of 76,207 cases have now been confirmed across 36 states and the FCT.