Nigeria, March 5 -- After almost two weeks of reporting relatively low daily infection figures, Nigeria recorded 709 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday.

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 figure is thus the highest in about two weeks.

Thursday's 709 new cases, recorded in 21 states, is also higher than the 479 reported on Wednesday, signaling a possible return of high daily figures.

With the latest figure, the total infection tally in the country is now 157,671, according to an update published by the Nigeria ...