Nigeria has reached another grim milestone in its coronavirus outbreak with 1,664 new cases recorded on Wednesday, the highest daily figure so far since the disease began spreading in the country.
This week, Nigeria has been consistent in setting and smashing previous records of highest daily tallies to indicate how swift the officially declared second wave of COVID-19 is spreading.
On Monday, Nigeria recorded 1,204 new cases as the country’s highest daily figure, a record smashed by the 1,354 infections reported from 21 states on Tuesday.
The latest highest daily tally of 1,664 pushed the total number of infections since the start of the pandemic in the country to 94,369.
Nigeria, on Wednesday, also reported five additional deaths from the disease.
This is according to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
The death tally from the COVID-19 disease in Nigeria increased to 1,324, the NCDC announced late Wednesday.
In the past 19 days, there have been 112 fatalities as a result of COVID-19 complications in Nigeria.
Since early December, there has been a spike in coronavirus infections in Nigeria as the country continues to set new records in daily infections.
Until the resurgence of the infections in December 2020, Nigeria never had more daily infections than the 745 reported on June 19.
Active cases in the country rose sharply from about 3,000 some weeks ago to over 11,000 due to a rise in new infections.
Of the over 94,000 cases so far, 77, 299 patients have been discharged from hospitals after treatment.
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