Nigeria has recorded 10 new confirmed cases of the Monkeypox disease in the seven days between May 30 and June 5 from six states including Edo (2), Rivers (2), Plateau (2), Lagos (2), Ondo (1) and Imo (1).

According to available data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), there were 44 new suspected cases reported between May 30 and June 5 from 14 states, namely Kebbi (11), Lagos (8), Gombe (4), Plateau (4), Rivers (3), Adamawa (2), Edo (2) Kano (2), FCT (2), Niger (2), Ondo (1), Katsina (1), Bayelsa (1) and Imo (1).

Also, from January 1st to 5th June 2022, there have been 110 suspected cases in total and 31 confirmed cases from 12 states – Adamawa (5), Lagos (6), River (3), Cross River (2), FCT (2), Kano (2), Delta (2), Bayelsa (2), Edo (2), Imo (2), Plateau (2), and Ondo (1).

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However, one death was recorded in a 40-year-old man with co-morbidity that was receiving immunosuppressive drugs.

The NCDC said: “Overall and from September 2017 to 5th June, 2022, a total of 622 suspected cases have been reported from 33 states in the country.

“Of the reported cases, 257 (41.3 per cent) have been confirmed in 23 states – Rivers (55), Bayelsa (45), Lagos (36), Delta (31), Cross River (16), Edo (12), Imo (10), Akwa Ibom (7), Oyo (6), FCT (8), Plateau (5), Adamawa (5), Enugu (4), Abia (3), Nasarawa (2), Benue (2), Anambra (2), Ekiti (2), Kano (2), Ebonyi (1), Niger (1), Ogun (1) and Ondo (1).

“In addition, from September 2017 to June 5th, 2022, a total of nine (9) deaths have been recorded (CFR= 3.5 per cent) in six states – Lagos (3), Edo (2), imo (1), Cross River (1), FCT (1) and Rivers (1).