Twenty new cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been recorded in Nigeria.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 210.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) revealed this in a tweet on Friday, hours after it confirmed six cases of coronavirus in Osun State.


A breakdown of the latest figure shows that 11 of the new cases are in Lagos, 3 in the FCT, 3 in Edo, 2 in Osun and 1 in Ondo.

Two new deaths have been recorded in Lagos and Edo States bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in the country to 4.