Nigeria on Wednesday announced 626 fresh COVID-19 cases, bringing the total infections to 27,110.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on its official twitter handle.
The NCDC said, as at July 2, Nigeria recorded 13 deaths.
The health agency said that no new state reported a case in the last 24 hours.
The health agency also said that Nigeria reported a total of 616 deaths in 35 states and the FCT.
The NCDC said that lagos state reported the highest number of cases with 193 new cases while FCT reported 85 new infections.
Others are, Oyo-41, Edo-38, Kwara-34, Abia-31, Ogun-29, Ondo-28, Rivers-26
Osun-21, Akwa Ibom-18, Delta-18, Enugu-15, Kaduna-13, Plateau-11, Borno-8, Bauchi-7, Adamawa-5, Gombe-4 and Sokoto-1.
The Director General NCDC, Dr chikwe Ihekweazu disclosed that it’s team were enroute Cross river State to begin COVID-19 testing.
“I was excited when the governor called me a day ago. We are working out a mechanism to kick off testing in Calabar.
“A team is on their way there now and anoyher team form Ministry of health is going there soon and I think we are making progress”, Ihekweazu said.
He stressed that testing was the only pathway into understanding.
The DG said by the end of next week all states would have capacity to test for COVID-19 with only four states away.
On the two million test target, Ihekweazu said that achieving the goal was a collective responsibility.
He said the target was birthed after the Africa CDC in consultation with all African countries agreed to test one percent of its population.
“This is a not a target for NCDC, PTF, ministry of health alone, it’s a target for every Nigerian, it either we achieve it or we come back here to say the same thing and we will be on this journey and more people will die.
“This target is but an abstract or an academic, it’s something that we need to push ourselves to achieve,”
