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By Doris Obinna
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the country recorded 35 new cases of COVID-19 infections in the last week of December 2022.
It stated on its website on Wednesday that 22 of the cases were recorded in the FCT; 10 in Lagos State; two in Delta, while one recorded in Plateau.
“The cases were recorded between December 24 and 30, 2022. The new cases increased Nigeria’s total infection to 266,450 and 3,155 deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2019,” it said.
The NCDC stated that 3,451 people were currently down with the virus, while 259,841 people had been treated and discharged nationwide.
It called on Nigerians to disinfect frequently touched surfaces regularly to prevent the spread of the virus and other infectious diseases.
It stressed that vaccines were one of the best tools to combat the virus and encouraged Nigerians to get vaccinated.
Meanwhile, NCDC has said that the COVID-19 Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant and its lineages that has continue to dominate countries like, China, the USA, the UK is yet to be detected in Nigeria,
The NCDC disclosed this in an update on COVID-19 genomic surveillance signed by the Director General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, yesterday.
He said the NCDC-led COVID-19 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) has been monitoring COVID-19 trends in China, the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), South Africa, India, and other countries with a high volume of traffic to and from Nigeria.
“The NCDC continues to strengthen genomic surveillance of the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria. Since the detection of the Omicron variant in December 2021, its sub-lineage (BQ.1/BQ.1.1) has been dominant in Nigeria. None of these dominant sub-lineages in Nigeria that are also circulating elsewhere has been associated with any increases in case numbers, admissions, or deaths locally,” he said.
