The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) registered 40 new COVID-19 cases as of July 2, 2021, with no related death in the daily infection chart. The News Agency Of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the new infections indicate a decline from the 74 cases recorded a day earlier. The NCDC added that there was no new death from the disease on Friday, meaning that the total fatality toll remained 2,121. It stated that Lagos State led in Friday’s infection tally with 36 new cases, followed by Rivers with two cases. xThe centre noted that 164,369 people recovered from the virus after successful treatment from isolation centres, while 2.3 million samples were tested from the country’s rough population of 200 million.

Source: The Guardian July 03, 2021 08:26 UTC