Libya's National Center for Disease Control announced the registration of 1,073 new coronavirus infections after the testing of 5,346 samples on Wednesday.

In it's daily bulletin released on Thursday, the center also noted that there were 778 recoveries from the virus and 10 deaths.

This brings the total number of infections in Libya to 142,671 cases, of which 10,625 are active, with a total of 2,340 deaths since the outbreak began in the country last March.