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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Ondo, Edo and Bauchi recorded 70 per cent of the 909 confirmed cases and 170 deaths from Lassa Fever cases.
The Assistant Director and Head of the Response Division of the NCDC, Dr Aderinola Olaolu, made this known at the Ministerial Press Briefing on updates on COVID-19 response and Development in the Health Sector in Abuja.
He said response activities continue in all areas, particularly in areas of state advocacy, IPC support, and laboratory diagnostics.
Olaolu said that the centre reported Lassa fever cases from 25 states and 101 LGAs.
On measles, he said impacts of COVID-19 continue to be felt across several other areas including the increase in the risk of measles and a probable increase in yellow fever outbreaks due to delayed planned vaccination campaigns.
”We recorded 18,577 confirmed cases, and 190 deaths as at week 35 in 36 states and the FCT and there are 40 LGAs with the active outbreak.
”We will continue to support state responses to measles outbreaks,” he said.
He said that the NCDC has continued to record confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria, just as in several other parts of the world.
