Confirmed cases of coronavirus have increased to 493 in Nigeria after 51 new infections were recorded on Friday.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known via its Twitter handle.

Fifty-one new cases of #COVID19 have been reported;

32 in Lagos
6 in Kano
5 in Kwara
2 in FCT
2 in Oyo
2 in Katsina
1 in Ogun
1 in Ekiti

As at 10:10 pm 17th April there are 493 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.

Discharged: 159
Deaths: 17 #TakeResponsibility