This was made known in the weekly situation report released by the health agency on Wednesday.
Cumulatively from week one to week seven, 103 deaths have been reported with a case fatality rate of 17.6 per cent. This is lower than the CFR for the same period in 2019 pegged at 21.1 per cent. NCDC in its clarification of the discrepancies in the new data released on Wednesday compared to death figures released last week, said the discrepancies were as a result of missed deaths reported from the states.
ordinary lassa fever! we are lucky Ebola came before this era.
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