COVID-19: Kwara tops list with 98 as NCDC registers 574 infections, eight deaths

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported  574 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 146,928.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday.
The country has tested 1,441,013 people since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announced on February 27 2020.
The health agency also recorded additional eight COVID-19 deaths, raising the total fatality in the country to 1,761 in the last 24 hours.
It stated that the 574 new infections were reported from 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The agency said Kwara State topped the list with 98 infections, followed by Lagos 81, Edo 59 and Ondo 44 cases.
Other states affected by the virus   were  FCT-41, Kano-34, Ogun-33, Kaduna-29, Osun-28, Enugu- 23, Rivers-18, Delta-16, Akwa Ibom-15, Bauchi-12, Imo-10, Borno-8, Niger-8, Kebbi-7, Nasarawa-5 Gombe-3 and Ekiti-2.
The health agency stated that 1,816 people recovered and were discharged, bringing the country total recoveries to 123,009.
The NCDC  added that discharges today included community recoveries in Oyo (1,198), Lagos (227) and Kwara State (53) managed in line with its guidelines.
It said that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, was coordinating response activities nationwide.
The Agency said that there were  now 22,158 active cases across the country in the last 24 hours.
The country last week recorded 100 new COVID-19 deaths which is the highest since the beginning of the second wave.
The data also showed that the tally of 100 deaths last week showed there was a sharp increase when compared to the 69 deaths recorded in the previous week.
The country has confirmed 29 cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant and also noted that the B.1.351 variant dominant in South Africa has  not been detected in the country.
The  country is exactly 13 days to the first year anniversary of the COVID-19 Index case, which was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020.
The National snap shot for COVID-19 from the NCDC as at  Feb. 14, was as follows: Cases: 146,354,  Active Cases: 23,408, which is 16 per cent , Discharged: 121,193, which is 82.8 per cent, Deaths: 1,753 which is 1.2 per cent and Testing is at 1,441,013.
In the last one year, the country has experienced two waves of infections and recorded a lot of fatalities.