Nigeria on Saturday recorded ten new coronavirus cases, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has disclosed.

The agency made the disclosure in its daily situation report of COVID-19 on its official twitter page.

According to the agency, six of the new cases are in Lagos, two in Abuja and two in Edo, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 224.

Ten new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 6 in Lagos, 2 in FCT and 2 in Edo.

As at 11:15 am 5th April there are 224 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Twenty-seven have been discharged with five deaths pic.twitter.com/zztdRENzUF

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 5, 2020

As at 11:15am 5th April, there are

224 confirmed cases
27 discharged
5 deaths

For a breakdown of cases by states- https://t.co/zQrpNeOfet

Lagos- 115
FCT- 45
Osun- 20
Oyo- 9
Akwa Ibom- 5
Ogun- 4
Edo- 9
Kaduna- 4
Bauchi- 6
Enugu- 2
Ekiti- 2
Rivers-1
Benue- 1
Ondo- 1

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 5, 2020