The COVID-19 related death toll in the African continent has reached 49,412, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said.
Africa has surpassed 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases as the continent's top public health official warned Thursday that `continent is inevitably edging toward a second wave'' of infections.
About 76 persons have been confirmed dead in 222 clusters of yellow fever outbreaks in Bauchi, Delta and Enugu states, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said.
Seventeen persons were reported to have died of a strange illness ravaging the Okpeilo-Otukpa area in the Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State.
A total of 59 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections were reported in Nigeria in the last 24 hours, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
