The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control or NCDC announced Sunday that four were killed by cholera as 78 suspected cases had been reported in the country from November 1 to 7, 2021.
The NCDC revealed through its Facebook page that a total of 3,449 deaths and 100,057 suspected cases had been reported as of November 7, 2021, representing a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 3.4 per cent.
The latest cholera report revealed that the four fatalities were reported from two undisclosed states. Six states reported 78 new suspected cases, making the weekly CFR 5.1 per cent.
About 67 per cent of the cases belong to Borno State in the northeast with 32 cases and Kebbi State in the northwest with 20 cases.
Nineteen suspected cases were reported by the northeast’s Adamawa State, three cases by Cross River State in the south, and Ogun and Oyo states in the southwest recorded two cases each.
There was an 81 per cent decrease in the number of new suspected cases in the report test week compared to the previous week with 409 cases reported.
The NCDC reported that nine Cholera Rapid Diagnostic Tests were conducted during the reporting week. Five were conducted in Adamawa and one each in the states of Kebbi, Cross River, Ogun and Oyo.
It was noted that a total of three cases out of the figure came out positive.
