Forty-eight more COVID-19 patients have been discharged after recovering from the virus in Lagos state.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced this on Thursday evening.
He said 28 of the patients were discharged from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba; six of them were from Lekki, one was from the Onikan centre and 13 from the LUTH Isolation Centres.
Governor Sanwo-Olu said they were discharged “having fully recovered and tested negative to #COVID19 in two consecutive readings”.
For now, coronavirus has infected 3,145 people and claimed 103 lives in Nigeria.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu the Incident Commander send an update with Lagosians.
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Dear Lagosians,
We will continue to celebrate and acknowledge our wins, as well as reflect our losses. These will help us stay on course, prevent us from being distracted, help us stay focused as we face this pandemic head on.
Though we have been recording recovered patients, we need to also be careful, remain guarded, and show commitment and cooperation with authorities as we are all in this together.
Our wins are your wins, our losses, your losses.
Therefore, I’m pleased to announce to you the discharge of 48 more patients; 32 males and 16 females, all Nigerians who were discharged from our Yaba, Lekki, Onikan and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation facilities to reunite with the society.
The patients, 28 from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, 6 from Lekki, 1 from Onikan and 13 from LUTH Isolation Centres were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to #COVID19 in two consecutive readings.
With this new development, the number of #COVID19 confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos stands at 406.
Thank you all and God bless.
