Five more positive cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Nigeria, raising the number of total infections in the country to 323.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed the new cases in a tweet last night.

It explained that two cases were recorded in Lagos and Kwara States respectively while the last infection was discovered in Katsina.

As at last night, there are 323 confirmed cases of Covid-19 reported in the country with 85 patients discharged with 10 deaths.

Further breakdown shows that 19 states have so far recorded cases of COVID-19 with Lagos still the highest with 176, FCT- 56, Osun- 20, Edo- 12, Oyo- 11, Ogun- 7, Bauchi- 6, Kaduna- 6, Akwa Ibom- 5, Katsina-5, Kwara- 4, Delta- 3, Enugu- 2, Ekiti- 2, Rivers-2 and Ondo- 2.

Benue, Niger, Anambra and Kano states respectively have one case each.