COVID-19 cases in the two mostly affected centres, Lagos and FCT Abuja have continued to plunge southwards, suggesting that Nigeria may have tamed the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nationally on Monday, the NCDC reported just 574 cases, not far from the 690 reported on Sunday.
Lagos and Abuja, which are the leaders in grim cases, have now been pushed into obscurity, as Kwara and Ondo become new pandemic hot spots..
On Monday, while Lagos posted 81 cases, Kwara reported 98. Abuja posted just 41 cases.
On Sunday, Lagos reported 170 cases. Abuja had 29.
Ondo posted 120 cases to come second in the daily cases.
For both Abuja and Lagos, the decline in cases has been the trend since 7 February, when Lagos reported just 22 cases. Abuja posted 28.
On February 8, Lagos had 86 cases, Abuja 34.
In the next five days, up till 13 February, Lagos recorded a total of 1,270 cases, an average of 254.
Then, its cases took the deep plunge.
Abuja similarly recorded 665 cases between 9 February and 13 February, to give an average of 133 cases.
Like Lagos, recorded incidents have also gone done.
Are these signs Nigeria has seen off the worst part of the second phase of the pandemic?
Despite the low numbers in Lagos and Abuja, the total number of confirmed cases for Nigeria continues to grow.
According to the NCDC, Nigeria now has 146,928 confirmed cases, out of which 123,009 have been discharged, and
1,761 have died.
Eight new deaths were recorded on Monday, NCDC said.
Among those discharged were 1,198 in Oyo, 227 in Lagos, 53 in Kwara State.
Here now is a breakdown of cases on Monday:
574 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Kwara- 98
Lagos- 81
Edo- 59
Ondo- 44
FCT- 41
Kano- 34
Ogun- 33
Kaduna- 29
Osun- 28
Enugu- 23
Rivers- 18
Delta-16
Akwa Ibom-15
Bauchi-12
Imo-10
Borno-8
Niger-8
Kebbi-7
Nasarawa-5
Gombe-3
Ekiti-2
146,928 confirmed
123,009 discharged
1,761 deaths
And also the revised 690 cases on Sunday;
Lagos-170
Ondo-120
Borno-41
Ebonyi-37
Benue-33
Plateau-30
FCT-29
Nasarawa-25
Ogun-25
Edo-24
Osun-24
Katsina-22
Kaduna-21
Niger-20
Kwara-14
Ekiti-13
Yobe-10
Oyo-4
Bayelsa-1
Jigawa-1
Cumulative cases as at Monday 15 February