By our reporter| The Lagos state government on Sunday discharged 45 COVID-19 patients following their recovery from the highly contagious virus.
The state ministry of health which made the disclosure in a statement via its verified Twitter handle, said the recovered and discharged patients include 18 females and 27 males.
“Today, 45 fully recovered COVID-19 Lagos patients; 18 females and 27 males were discharged from our Isolation facilities to reunite with the society,” the statement noted.
According to the statement, 20 of the patients were discharged from the Gbagada Isolation Centre, nine from Onikan, two from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, one from Agidingbi, one from Lekki and 12 from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
“With this, the number of COVID-19 cases successfully managed and discharged in Lagos has risen to 1328,” the ministry said, urging Lagosians to keep doing their “part to reduce the spread of COVID-19.”
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control in a statement on Saturday said Nigeria currently has 19,808 confirmed cases of COVID-19, out of which 6,718 have been discharged with 506 others dead.
Most of the infections were recorded in Lagos, the epicentre of the pandemic in Nigeria.
Leave a Reply