Nigeria's confirmed coronavirus cases have surpassed 30,000, Reuters news agency reported quoting the country's disease control centre, as the virus spreads in Africa's most populous country amid an easing of restrictions put in place to curb the disease.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in its daily update posted on its website, said there were 460 new cases, taking the total number of recorded cases to 30,249. NCDC said these had led to 684 deaths.
The country of 200 million people has, like many other African nations, so far avoided the high death rates of the United States, Brazil and parts of Europe. But health experts fear a lack of reliable data means the virus could be spreading unchecked in Africa. Fearing the economic toll of the pandemic, Nigerian authorities have in recent weeks relaxed restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the virus.
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