Nigeria, March 6 -- Nigeria on Friday recorded 371 new COVID-19 infections in 20 states, health authorities have said.

The new figure was a significant decrease from the 709 reported in the previous 24-hour cycle.

Nigeria suffered its worst phase of the COVID-19 outbreak between December and January as daily infections averaged over 1,000.

Recently however, infection figures have been relatively low with daily cases hovering between 300 and 700 in the past 13 days.

Thursday's 709 was thus the highest in about two weeks but the 371 on Friday appeared a return to low daily figures.

With the latest figure, the total infection tally in the country is now 158,042, according to an update published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control ...