At least 816 persons have been confirmed dead from cholera-related illness in 22 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) between January1 and August 1, 2021.
Checkout Magazine learnt that 31,425 suspected cases were detected across the country out of which 311 were confirmed during the same period.
The states that recorded the 816 deaths are Delta, Bayelsa, Cross River, Enugu, Kwara, Benue, Kogi and Plateau.
Others are Zamfara, Gombe, Sokoto, Bauchi, Kano, Kaduna, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Niger, Jigawa, Yobe, Adamawa, Katsina and Borno.
According to an epidemiological report by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 27 percent of the suspected cases comprised children aged five to 14. It added that 51 percent were males and 49 percent females.
It added that it had begun response activities in states to curtail the spread of the disease and manage identified cases.
”There is ongoing surveillance in all states through the routine integrated disease surveillance (IDRS) and response and event-based surveillance (EBS),” it explained in the report.
NCDC also stated that it was advancing hygiene promotion, provision of safe water, water chlorination, household disinfection, sensitisation on dangers of open defecation in high-risk communities as some ways to check the spread of the disease.
