Nigeria recorded 23 new deaths from COVID-19 and 1,479 new infections on Thursday, January 14.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this on its official website.
The recent fatalities have now brought the country’s death toll to a total of 1,405 and total number of infections so far to 105,478.
Lagos is leading with 697 new infections, followed by FCT with 201, Nasarawa- 80 and Plateau recorded 74 cases.
Other states with new cases include: Rivers- 72, Edo- 46, Adamawa- 43, Osun- 39, Akwa Ibom- 35, Delta- 31, Anambra- 27, Oyo- 24, Kano- 21, Abia- 19, Enugu-19, Ogun-18, Sokoto-12,Bauchi-7, Taraba- 7, Ekiti- four, Gombe- four, Imo- four, Bayelsa- two, Jigawa- two and Zamfara- one.
Meanwhile, the NCDC with support from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has activated a shortcode– “6232”.
“This number has been introduced as a means for the public to contact NCDC’s Connect Centre and access verified information on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.”
“The shortcode is a toll-free and easy-to-remember number, which means that all calls to NCDC through ‘6232’ are free of charge. This is to ensure all Nigerians have access to verified information on infectious diseases.
“In 2016, NCDC established its Connect Centre as a critical aspect of its event-based surveillance and risk communications strategy.
“Over the years, this has been used for the response to infectious disease outbreaks such as Lassa fever, monkeypox, yellow fever, cerebrospinal meningitis etc,” NCDC said.
