Lassa Fever: NCDC links increasing fatality rate to late medical care
NCDC puts the case fatality rate of the disease for this year at 16.9 per cent, the same as recorded ...
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NCDC puts the case fatality rate of the disease for this year at 16.9 per cent, the same as recorded ...
With no backlog of infections and discharges recorded, the NCDC noted that a total of 249,340 people have been discharged ...
The centre noted that a total of 230,549 people have now been discharged nationwide.
Saturday’s tally brings the total number of COVID-19 infections in the West African nation to 164,684.
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Nigeria also recorded three deaths on Friday, to take the fatality toll to 1, 119.