Nigeria’s coronavirus outbreak is continuing to subside with 304 new cases reported Sunday, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
Even as the case numbers are rising daily in the United States of America and Brazil, the two countries that now lead the world, Nigeria’s confirmed coronavirus infections rose to 43,841.
This is as a result of an additional 304 cases, slightly less than the 386 just a day earlier.
The NCDC, which made the announcement via its twitter handle, also announced 888 as the total number of deaths from the virus in the country, while it put the number of recoveries at 20,308.
As of August 2, the confirmed coronavirus death toll on the African continent stood at 19,983 and there are 945,882 confirmed infections and 603,687 recoveries, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than 18 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus. Almost 10.64 million patients have recovered and while almost 688,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Cases hit 4.6 million in the United States with more than 154,000 deaths reported.
Brazil has recorded 25,800 additional confirmed cases and 541 deaths, bringing the total to more than 2.73 million and more than 94,000 deaths as of the end of Sunday, according to the country’s health ministry.