 The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control and CDC said the country has registered 145 additional lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in nine states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The NCDC Viad's website on Sunday morning said the additional infections in the country moved up to 253,685 in Saturday, indicating on Saturday alone that there was an increase from 35 cases recorded the previous day. It noted that three deaths were reported in the country in Saturday as the country's total death toll is now 3,139. The agency other than the Omicron variant has dominant variant in the country and the BA2, the sub-variant of the strain, is more prevalent in India now. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization WHO pointed that the BA2 sub-variant has been dictated in 57 countries predominantly in Asia and Europe.