JUST IN: Covid-19 Confirmed Cases Rise To 44 In Oyo

Naijaparry EditorMay 6, 2020

Oyo State has recorded five new coronavirus cases, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the state to 44.

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in a post on Twitter on Tuesday.

With the development, the state now has 33 active cases.

Also, NCDC announced that Nigeria recorded 148 new cases of coronavirus.

According to the agency, the number of confirmed coronavirus in Nigeria is now 2950. Out of this number, 481 persons have been discharged while 98 death has been recorded.

“148 new cases of #COVID19; 43-Lagos, 32-Kano, 14-Zamfara, 10-FCT, 9-Katsina, 7-Taraba, 6-Borno, 6-Ogun, 5-Oyo, 3-Edo, 3-Kaduna, 3-Bauchi, 2-Adamawa, 2-Gombe, 1-Plateau, 1-Sokoto and 1-Kebbi” NCDC said.

With both Cross River and Kogi not appearing on today’s log, they both maintain their status as the only states without a single case of Coronavirus. As such, 34 states along with the FCT have recorded Covid-19 cases.

Nigeria remains acutely unable to hit 1,000 tests per day as only 976 tests were carried out within the last 24 hours. While this is a slight improvement from 970 tests carried out the day, it is still largely within the same range.

This brings the total number of tests to 19,512, up from 18,536.

The NCDC recorded an impressive 64 new recoveries, bringing the total number of discharged cases to 481. This sends a recovery rate rebounding to 16.3% after slumping to 14.5% just 24 hours ago.

Five new Covid-19 deaths were recorded during the day to bring the total number of deaths to 98, up from 95. This keeps the mortality rate stagnant at 3.3% for two consecutive days.

At the end of the day under review, there are 2,371 active cases. This means 80.3% of total cases in the country are still active, a considerable reduction from 81.7%.

Presently, there are more than 3.7 million COVID-19 cases around the world. More than 1.2 million of them have recovered, representing 33.2% recovery rate. With nearly 258,000 deaths, the global death rate currently stands at 6.9%. There are currently more than 2.2 million active cases around the world.