As Lagos State continues to record encouraging numbers of COVID-19 recoveries, 48 more patients have been discharged on Thursday.
The state’s Ministry of Health disclosed this in a tweet on its official Twitter handle, stating that the patients include 16 females and 32 males.
“48 more #COVID19Lagos patients; 16 females & 32 males; all Nigerians have been discharged from our Isolation facilities at Yaba, Lekki, Onikan & @LUTHofficial to reunite with the society,” the tweet read.
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*️⃣48 more #COVID19Lagos patients; 16 females & 32 males; all Nigerians have been discharged from our Isolation facilities at Yaba, Lekki, Onikan & @LUTHofficial to reunite with the society.@jidesanwoolu@followlasg@Fmohnigeria@NCDCgov@ARISEtv pic.twitter.com/6rWbPjxaa6
— LSMOH (@LSMOH) May 7, 2020
The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, verified this in a statement issued on Thursday evening.
He said:
“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.”
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