Nigeria, Jan. 26 -- Nigeria on Monday confirmed 1,430 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country's total infections to 122,996, according to health authorities.

Three people also died from the disease in the past 24 hours taking the fatalities from the disease to 1,507 in total.

This is according to an update Monday night by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

Last week was one of the worst in Nigeria's COVID-19 pandemic era.

According to a PREMIUM TIMES' review of data provided by the NCDC, 11,659 persons tested positive for the virus last week (January 17- 23), which is 18 per cent higher than the previous week's record of 9,880. This is despite the fact that more tests were conducted in the previous week than last week.

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