Nigeria opened 2021 on a high COVID-19 count, as for the third consecutive day, more than 1,000 new positive samples and five deaths were recorded on Friday. The new cases, which were confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), were recorded in 14 states and the federal capital territory in the country’s COVID-19 update for January 1, 2021. Lagos alone had more than half the total number of infections recorded on Friday with 642 new positive samples. After Lagos was Kaduna with 92 new cases, followed by…
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