The rampaging coronavirus pandemic is still biting harder as Nigeria on Wednesday recorded additional five fatalities from the virus and 856 fresh infections.Nigeria’s updateearly Thursday morning, revealed that the fresh cases were reported across 19 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory .
The breakdown of the NCDC data revealed that Lagos State, the epicentre of the disease, topped the infection chart with a backlog of 337 cases for January 4, 2022, followed by Kaduna State with 152 confirmed cases reported for January 4 and 5, 2022, wand an additional 123 cases for December 24 and 25, 2021.
Also, Niger State reported 15 cases for January 2, while Oyo and Rivers States reported 11 cases each. Experts confirmed that since November 4, only about 20 samples have been sequenced and that a single case was found since early December. By contrast, the Omicron variant, which was first uploaded to Gisaid on November 23, has more than 120,000 sequences in the database, with experts saying that the vast majority of Omicron cases have not been sequenced.
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