Nigeria, Feb. 10 -- Nigeria has recorded 41,336 suspected cases of diphtheria in 37 states across 350 Local Government Areas (LGAs) between week 19 of 2022 and week four of 2025.

In its recent situation report, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) noted that of the suspected cases, 24,864 cases and 1,264 deaths were confirmed across 26 states and 182 LGAs.

The infectious disease body noted that the deaths accounted for a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 5.1 per cent.

According to the centre, the most affected states are Kano (17,770), Bauchi (2,334), Yobe (2,380), Katsina (1,088), Borno (1,036), Jigawa (53), Plateau (31), and Kaduna (44).NCDC noted that these states accounted for 99.4 per cent of all confirmed cases....