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The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 21 new confirmed monkeypox (MPX) cases the week ending July 3, bringing the total confirmed cases to 84 this year to date.
The latest confirmed cases were reported from 11 states – Nasarawa (4), Adamawa (3), Borno (2), Delta (2), Edo (2), Kwara (2), Lagos (2), FCT (1), Ondo (1), Plateau (1), and Rivers (1).
NCDC officials say– We have seen an uptick in Monkeypox cases. We have now about matched the peak number of cases seen in 2017 when MPX re-emerged (88), and currently on course to surpass this.
Three monkeypox fatalities have been recorded in Nigeria this year.
Overall and since the re-emergence of monkeypox from September 2017 to 3rd July 2022, a total of
757 suspected cases have been reported from 34 states in the country.
Of these 757 suspected cases, there have been 310 (40.9%) confirmed from 27 states – Rivers (58),
Bayelsa (48), Lagos (43), Delta (36), Cross River (17), Edo (16), FCT (11), Imo (10), Adamawa (9),
Nasarawa (9), Plateau (8), Akwa Ibom (7), Oyo (7), Enugu (4), Abia (3), Anambra (3), Kwara (3), Benue
(2), Borno (2), Ekiti (2), Kano (2), Niger (2), Ogun (2), Taraba (2), Ondo (2), Ebonyi (1), and Katsina (1).
In addition, from September 2017 to July 3rd, 2022, a total of eleven deaths have been recorded
(CFR= 3.5%) in six states – Lagos (3), Edo (2), Imo (1), Cross River (1), FCT (1), Rivers (1), Ondo (1) and
Delta (1).
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