Lagos discharges nine more patients

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NINE more COVID-19 patients have been discharged in Lagos, the state government announced on Tuesday.

The nine, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said, tested negative twice to the virus, putting the number of discharged patients from the isolation centres in the state at 107.

The statement reads: “Good people of Lagos, I have more great news from our isolation facilities. Nine more persons, five females and four males, including one foreign national – a Polish, have been discharged to join the society.

“The patients, five from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba and four from the Onikan Isolation Centre, were discharged, having fully recovered and tested negative twice, consecutively for COVID-19.

“With this, the number of patients successfully managed and discharged from our facilities is now 107.”

Also on Tuesday, the government announced the death of two coronavirus patient.

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The announcement came of a report from Bauchi that another official of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has tested positive for the virus in the state.

The Chairman of the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, disclosed that a WHO official tested positive on Monday.

Mohammed said that the new index case was through contact tracing of the first WHO official that tested positive after an earlier travel to Kano State.

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