Lagos State witnessed an upsurge in the daily new COVID-19 cases as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), reported additional 422 infections on August 9, 2021.
The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Tuesday morning.
It confirmed that the additional 422 cases were from nine states and the FCT.
The agency said that Lagos state was standing at a dire inflection point, with the coronavirus cases surging and most of its population not yet fully vaccinated.
Driving the latest wave was the highly contagious Delta variant with Lagos continuing to report more than half of the daily cases in the country.
The state recorded the highest cases with 190 out of the 422 additional Infections.
The public health agency tracking the coronavirus case surges in states across the country said that the additional coronavirus cases were rising across the country with 86 in Rivers.
Ogun recorded 85, Oyo, 22, while FCT had 20,
Kwara had 7, Edo, 5, Abia, 4, and Bayelsa, 3.
The NCDC announced that 219 people had recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Saturday.