Nigeria on Tuesday logged 610 additional COVID-19 infections, the second-highest in nearly six months, said the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on its website on Wednesday morning.
It said the new infections took the country’s total of confirmed cases to 179,118, from the 422 cases registered a day earlier.
The public health institute said Lagos, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom States drove the country’s COVID-19 surge in new infections on Tuesday. Other states recorded new infections as follows: Ogun-21, Oyo-21, Ekiti-14, FCT-13, Delta-7, Edo-6, Ondo-4, Bayelsa, Kano, and Plateau two each.
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