Nigeria, May 7 -- Nigeria on Thursday recorded 28 new COVID-19 infections in six states across the country.

The new figure raised the total number of infections in the country to 165,301, an update published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night indicates.

According to the update, no new death was recorded from the virus which has already claimed 2,065 lives in the country.

The number of deaths recorded from the virus has declined recently with only four deaths recorded in the last 22 days.

The new COVID-19 cases were reported in six states: Lagos-10, Rivers-7, Akwa Ibom-6, Delta-2, FCT-2 and Kaduna-1.

A breakdown of the data shows that 21 people were discharged on Thursday after testing negative for the vir...