241 fresh cases of COVID-19 coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 10,819.

The latest figures were disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control via its official twitter handle.

While the number of deaths rose to 314, the number of discharge cases also grew to 3,239.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 377,213 people worldwide since the outbreak first emerged in China last December.