Coronavirus infections have been on a steady rise in Nigeria in the past one week with 474 new cases reported on Wednesday, according to health authorities.

In just seven days, 2, 729 infections were reported, indicating a resurgence in cases after weeks of low numbers.

Reported from 16 states, the latest cases took the total number of infections in the country to 70,669.

A total of 1,184 fatalities has also been recorded in the country after two persons died from the disease on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, of the over 70,000 persons infected by the disease in Nigeria, 65,242 have been discharged from hospitals after treatment.

Active cases in the country are now over 5, 000 due to recent rise in new infections.

This is according to an update Wednesday night by Nigeria’s Center for Disease Control (NCDC) as reported by Premium Times.

The 474 new cases were reported from the following 16 states:

FCT-180

Lagos-134

Kebbi-45

Adamawa-26

Plateau-16

Enugu-14

Taraba-14

Gombe-12

Nasarawa-8

Yobe-8

Rivers-5

Ogun-5

Kwara-2

Ekiti-2

Sokoto-2

Osun-1