COVID-19: Nigeria Record Highest New Cases on Thursday as Continent Death Nears 83,000

The largest African economy, Nigeria recorded her highest ever COVID-19 new cases on Thursday, 21st of January.

Nigeria recorded her highest daily count of 1,964 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, this was 300 higher than the previous high record of 1,664 new COVID cases it recorded on the 7th of January, 2021.

The country has recorded a total of 116,655 cases, 93,646 recoveries and, 1,485 deaths across the states since the outbreak of the Corona Virus.

According to health experts, the daily increase of new cases in the new year could be ascribed to the massive gatherings during the festive season, the relaxation of COVID-19 protocols in the various parts of the country, and in the two major airports, Lagos and Abuja airport.

The adverse effect of the global health pandemic has seen Africa recorded 82,781 COVID-19 death cases across the continents.

Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 from 55 African countries reached 3,364,031, reported deaths were 82,781 and, 2,809,825 were reported to have recovered as of January 22, 2021

The Africa country with the most reported COVID-19 cases in South Africa with a total of 1,380,807 cases of which 39,501 are death cases. Other most-affected countries are Morocco (463,706), Tunisia (190,884), Egypt (159,715), Ethiopia (132,326), and Nigeria (116,655).

The numbers are compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (world map) using statistics from the World Health Organization and other international institutions as well as national and regional public health departments.