Nigeria Health authorities continue to record deaths and increasing cases from the ongoing Cholera outbreak.

As of July 16, a total of 3,623 cases and 103 deaths across 187 Local Government Areas in 34 states of Nigeria were documented covering the first of the year.

The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Jide Idris, told a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday that the number of deaths translates to a cumulative case fatality rate of 2.8 percent.

Idris also mentioned that there has been a decline in the number of cases in the previous week.

He pointed out that previous outbreaks have shown that the peak of the outbreak typically aligns with the peak of the rainy season, which is still several weeks away.