NCDC Activates Emergency Centre as National Death Toll Reaches 53 over
Cholera
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has activated its emergency centre as the death toll in the recent outbreak of the cholera reached fifty-three nationwide.
This is according to an update yesterday by the agency shared on its official X platform.
According to the center, as of 24th June 2024, a total of one thousand five hundred and twenty-eight suspected cases have been recorded across 31 states.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Government says one person had died and 25 cases of the disease have been confirmed in the area.
The casualty is from Ijebu North local government of the state.
According to the Ogun State Health Commissioner Tomi Coker, who gave the figure in Abeokuta, yesterday, free surveillance and emergency treatment have been activated in all the twenty local government areas of the state.
Coker identified Abeokuta South, Abeokuta North, Obafemi/ Owode, Ijebu North, Ado, and Odo/ OTA local government areas as the most hit by the disease.
