Nigeria has reached a milestone in its COVID-19 response with no death recorded from the highly infectious disease in one week; the first time since Suleiman Achimugu became the first fatality on March 23, 2020.
The total number of deaths from the disease has remained 2,058. The last time Nigeria recorded any fatality from COVID-19 was penultimate Thursday.
This is according to an update published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night.
Nigeria is the country with the least death toll among the top six most affected countries by COVID-19 in Africa. The other five countries most affected by COVID-19 in Africa are South Africa, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Morocco, and Egypt.
While the relatively fewer deaths may indicate Nigeria’s success in managing the disease, the government has made some errors and faced some challenges in managing the virus.
PREMIUM TIMES previously highlighted five of those challenges which include poor testing and shortages in oxygen supply.
Health experts believe the death toll, like the number of those infected, is likely higher, with Nigeria testing less than one per cent of its 200 million population.

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