Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, has monkeypox has spread 29 states with 530 suspected cases, 220 confirmed cases and four deaths.
Adetifa who revealed these Tuesday at a ministerial press briefing by the Ministry of Health, added that these occurred from January 1 to August 14,
The DG said also that there have been 3,610 suspected cases of cholera, including 91 deaths, recorded in 31 states this year.
According to Adetifa, the suspected cases mostly afflicted the age group of less than five years adding that surveillance and risk communication efforts had been expanded and there are plans to review the National Cholera Plan.
“We are also working to develop state-level preparedness and response plans,” he said.
According to the Director-General, there was currently no case of Marburg virus disease in Nigeria, adding the country has the capacity to test for the virus at the National Reference Laboratory in Abuja and the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital laboratory Centre for Human and Zoonotic Virology.
Dr Ifedayo revealed 5,441,162 samples of COVID-19 had been tested, with 262,748 confirmed cases recorded while 256,518 cases were discharged and 3,147 deaths recorded.
He named Lagos, FCT, Rivers, Kaduna, and Oyo as the top five states with the highest cumulative number of cases.
