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Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control, NCDC, has confirmed 23 new cases of Lassa fever including 4 deaths.

Since the onset of the 2019 outbreak, there have been 114 deaths in confirmed cases with case fatality ratio in confirmed cases is stood at 23.0 percent.Twenty-one States, namely Edo, Ondo, Bauchi, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Plateau, Taraba, FCT, Adamawa, Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Benue, Rivers, Kogi, Enugu, Imo, Delta, Oyo, Kebbi and Cross River have recorded at least one confirmed case across 73 Local Government Areas.

 

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