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A student adjusts his face mask on his way to school in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sept. 21, 2020. (Photo by Emmanuel Osodi/Xinhua)
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria has surpassed 100,000 amid government efforts to get vaccines against the coronavirus.
by Olatunji Saliu
ABUJA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria surpassed 100,000 when the country s disease control agency reported 1,024 new cases late Sunday amid government efforts to get vaccines against the coronavirus.
The total number of infections in the most populous African country now stood at 100,087, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) reported.
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