Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 299 fresh COVID-19 infections across 15 states and the federal capital territory (FCT) on Wednesday.
The latest figure represents a decline of 42.39 percent from Tuesday figure (519 cases).
The agency said 198 persons were discharged while three deaths were recorded on Wednesday.
Lagos, the hardest-hit state, recorded 94 positive samples, followed by FCT and Oyo with 30 and 27 cases respectively.
Other states that recorded new infections are Bayelsa (23), Rivers (20), Edo (17), Taraba (17), Kwara (15), Benue (14), Delta (11), Osun (10), Ekiti (9), Gombe (4), Plateau (4), Kano (2], and Ogun (2).
Nigeria has a total of 200,356 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 188,917 recoveries; 2,640 deaths and 8,799 active cases.
In other news, Edo state government on Wednesday enforced the ‘no vaccination card, no access’ rule.
On Tuesday, the state government had said it will start restricting entry into government offices for unvaccinated civil servants.
According to the government, the move is the first phase of its enforcement of restriction on large public gatherings for persons without evidence of COVID-19 vaccination.
Workers without vaccination cards were not allowed to enter the state secretariat and government house on Wednesday, as police constabularies were drafted to enforce the policy.
Meanwhile, Moderna says its COVID vaccine trial shows that the protection offered by the vaccine wanes over time.
Stephen Hoge, president of Moderna, disclosed this in a media conference on Wednesday, adding that there is a need for a booster shot to boost immunity.
Hoge expressed;
This is only one estimate, but we do believe this means as you look toward the fall and winter, at minimum we expect the estimated impact of waning immunity would be 600,000 additional cases of COVID-19. We believe this will reduce COVID-19 cases. We also believe that a third dose of mRNA-1273 has a chance of significantly extending immunity throughout much of next year as we attempt to end the pandemic.
