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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 41 new cases of Coronavirus in the country, bringing all time cases to 165,702. But out of the 165,702 confirmed cases, 156,412 patients have been treated and discharged while 2,066 others could not make it alive, leaving Nigeria with 7222 active cases of Coronavirus

As the world battles new COVID-19 variants and supply and rollout of vaccines remains critically low in Africa, new research from the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC) indicates that burdens experienced by people in African Union Member States remain grave: 81% of survey respondents reported challenges in accessing food, 77% reported experiencing income loss and 42% reported missing medical visits since the start of the pandemic