The number of patients who have recovered from COVID-19 in Nigeria has now surpassed 60,000.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 159 new recoveries on Monday, increasing the country’s total number of discharged patients to 60,069.
The development comes more than one month after Nigeria exceeded 50,000 recoveries.
421 patients were discharged on September 30, increasing the recovery count to 50,358 at the time.
Between September 1 and October 31, 2020, more than 16,000 people were discharged across the country.
However, with less than 17,000 recoveries in two months, the rate recorded a significant drop between September 1 and October 31, when compared to more than 20,000 recoveries for August alone.