Nigeria reported 176 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country  to 55,632.

The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) via its official twitter handle on Wednesday night.

According to the NCDC update, new infections were found in the following 17 states: FCT (40), Lagos (34), Plateau (26), Enugu (14), Delta (12), Ogun (12), Ondo (9), Oyo (8), Ekiti (6), Ebonyi (4), Adamawa (2), Nasarawa (2), Kwara(2), Rivers (2), Edo (1), Osun (1), Bauchi (1).

About27,711,866 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed globally with over 900,052 deaths recorded.