Nigeria, March 24 -- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has recorded three new confirmed cases and one death of diphtheria.

The centre made this known in its latest situation report for week 11.

NCDC stated that the cases were identified among 16 suspected cases across four local government areas (LGAs) in two states.

The agency noted that all the three confirmed cases were clinically diagnosed, with no laboratory confirmations or epidemiological links reported.

Also, it stated that the death accounted for a case fatality rate (CFR) of 33.3 per cent.

Since epidemiological week 19 of 2022, Nigeria has recorded 42,805 suspected diphtheria cases across 351 LGAs in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FC...