Nigeria, March 26 -- After a few days of respite, Nigeria recorded five deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday.

For six of the past nine days, nobody died from the highly infectious disease.

The five deaths on Thursday, however, raised the total fatalities in the country to 2,036.

This is according to an update published by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night.

Also, in continuation of a steady run of low infection figures, the country recorded 97 new cases under 24-hours, one of the lowest daily figures this year.

The new figure raised the total number of infections in the West African nation to 162,275.

In the past one week, daily infections have fallen below 300.

The 97 new cases were reported from 15 states: L...