The Edo State Government on Friday, said the state had recorded 53 new cases,23 recoveries and one more death from second wave of Covid-19 pandemic.
The State’s Covid-19 incident Manager,Dr Andrew Obi, made this known during a virtual meeting of the state’s Covid-19 Task Force in Benin.
Obi said the 53 new cases were confirmed positive from 208 samples collected within a 24- hour period.
He said the state also recorded one more health worker infection, with 864 active cases that are being managed at various treatment and isolation centres in the state.
“With the new figures, Edo has now recorded a total of 1717 confirmed cases, 389 health workers infections,42 deaths and 803 recoveries since Dec. 1,2020 when the state started tracking the second wave of the virus” he said.
