Nigeria, Feb. 24 -- Nigeria on Monday recorded 571 new COVID-19 cases, continuing a trend of recording less than 700 daily cases since last Friday. This is the first time the country will record less than 700 cases for five consecutive days since the country began experiencing the second wave of the virus in December; suggesting the worst phase of the viral infection may have passed.

However, the failure of the infectious disease agency, NCDC, to publish the daily figures for the number of tests conducted means the reduced daily infection figure cannot be put in a proper context.

The 571 cases on Tuesday raises the total number of infections in the country to 153,187, according to the NCDC.

Since the increase in infections officially d...