The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded six new cases of COVID-19 virus in Nigeria as toll rises to 238.

According to the NCDC via their twitter handle, 2 cases has been reported in Kwara, 2 in Edo, 1 in Rivers and 1 in the Federal Capital Territory.

This was announced on Monday night at 9:30pm on their Twitter handle.

“Six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 2 in Kwara, 2 in Edo, 1 in Rivers and 1 in the FCT”.

“As at 09:30 pm 6th April there are 238 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Thirty-five have been discharged with five deaths”.

Breakdown of the COVID-19 virus cases by state:

Lagos- 120

FCT- 48

Osun- 20

Oyo- 9

Edo- 11

Bauchi- 6

Akwa Ibom- 5

Kaduna- 5

Ogun- 4

Enugu- 2

Ekiti- 2

Rivers-2

Benue- 1

Ondo- 1

Kwara- 2

Six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 2 in Kwara, 2 in Edo, 1 in Rivers and 1 in the FCT As at 09:30 pm 6th April there are 238 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Thirty-five have been discharged with five deaths pic.twitter.com/jmChydhtas — NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 6, 2020