Lagos discharges 22 more coronavirus patients

By TIMILEYIN OMILANA

Lagos State Government has discharged 22 coronavirus patients after recovering from the disease.

The total of persons discharged in Lagos is currently 247.

Of the 22 patients discharged by the state government, eight are female Nigerians while the rest are 14 males.

Confirming their discharge from isolation centres, the State Ministry of Health, in a statement on its official social media handle on Saturday, disclosed that the patients were treated at the Isolation facilities at Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) in Yaba, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba and Lekki isolation centre.

“The 22 more COVID-19 patients discharged today include eight females and 14 males who are all Nigerians from our Isolation facilities at Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) in Yaba, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba and Lekki isolation center, to reunite with the society.”

“Out of the 22 patients; 19 were managed at LUTH, two from IDH in Yaba and one from our Isolation Centre at Lekki have fully recovered and tested negative twice consecutively to COVID-19,” the ministry said. (The Guardian)