 Nigeria has recorded more than 500 COVID-19 cases in daily figures for the third time on Friday. He asked the government struggles to deal with a new and more infectious variant of the virus. The Nigerian Center for Disease Control and CDC reported 590 new cases. NSAIDs said that the new daily tally of 558 and Thursday has now been overtaken by Friday's 590 cases. And this has raised the total infections in the country to 173,411. Nigeria also registered eight new deaths from COVID-19 related complications on Friday, keeping the deaths toll at 2,148. NEWS Updates