Ahead of this week's Muslim festival Eid-el-Kabir, Nigeria has put six states on red alert after witnessing a "worrisome" rise in COVID-19 infections, according a government official.
The official in statement further urged people to curb gatherings and hold prayers outside mosques during the celebrations.
As Abdullahi Hassan reports, Nigeria, like most countries on the continent is now faced with a third wave of the COVID-19 after detecting the more transmissible – Delta variant.
