The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 161 new cases of COVID-19 in the country as of July 12.xThe NCDC said on its website, on Tuesday morning, that the additional 161 infections brought the total of infections in the country to 168, 713. It noted that 37 people who had recovered from the disease had been discharged from isolation centres across the country. “Four states with zero cases reported are: Ekiti, Kaduna, Nasarawa, and Ogun,” it stated. The NCDC said the country had successfully tested 2.3 million samples out of over 200 million Nigerians. It added that a multi-sectoral national emergency operations centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continued to coordinate the national response activities.

Source: The Guardian July 13, 2021 08:37 UTC