How Lagos backlogs led to highest daily COVID-19 cases

Last month, 12,547 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized

Nigeria hit a record-shattering daily count of 4,035 cases of COVID-19 on December 22, 2021, an 847 percent increase that many by error attributed to the rise of the fast-spreading omicron variant. The rare surge was fuelled by backlogs aggregated largely from Lagos in previous days and others fr

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