As Nigerians continue to experience the nationwide ease in lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari, the country recorded a 16 per cent drop in coronavirus cases last week compared to the previous week, an analysis of data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) shows.

A PREMIUM TIMES review of the daily report of COVID-19 cases by the NCDC shows that Nigeria recorded 1,470 new cases in the past week (May 10 - May 16), a 16 per cent drop from the 1,763 cases reported in the previous week (May 3 - May 9).

However, Lagos, like Nigeria, recorded a weekly decrease in new infections when last week's figure is compared to the 696 new cases recorded in the state in the previous week.

The data also shows that Abia and Bayelsa did not record additional cases last week while Cross River and Kogi states are yet to report a single case of the infection since Nigeria's index case was announced in February.

A breakdown of the 5,621confirmed cases shows that Lagos State has so far reported 2,373 cases, followed by Kano - 761, FCT - 397, Katsina - 239, Bauchi - 212, Borno - 212, Jigawa - 197, Ogun - 145, Kaduna - 134, Gombe - 124, Sokoto - 112, Oyo - 107, Edo - 95, Zamfara - 74, Kwara - 58, Osun - 42, Rivers - 35, Yobe - 32, Kebbi - 31, Delta - 25, Nasarawa - 31, Niger - 22, Plateau - 21,, Adamawa - 21, Ondo - 19, Taraba - 17, Akwa Ibom - 16, Ekiti - 19, Enugu - 12, , Ebonyi - 9, Imo - 7, Bayelsa - 6, Benue - 5, Anambra - 5 and Abia - 2.