Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse
LAGOS, Jigawa and Kebbi states have discharged 38 patients after they tested negative twice for COVID-19.
While Lagos had 33 patients, Jigawa had four and Kebbi had one.
Announcing the development on Monday, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said: “Dear Lagosians, today (Monday), 33 more COVID-19 patients, comprising 24 males and nine females, all Nigerians, were discharged from our isolation facilities to reunite with the society.
“The patients, 17 from Onikan and 16 from Eti-Osa (LandMark) Isolation Centres, have fully recovered and tested negative twice consecutively to COVID-19.
“This latest discharge brings the total number of cases successfully managed to full recovery at our isolation facilities in Lagos to 502…”
Jigawa State government discharged the four patients as the state’s cases rose to 116, the state’s chairman of the task force committee on COVID-19, Dr. Abba Zakari Umar, said on Monday.
In a telephone interview with our reporter in Dutse, the state capital, Umar said: “We initially discharged one patient and now we also received the result of three more patients which confirmed negative and are to be discharged.
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“All the patients in our isolation centres are doing fine. Treatment has continued. We have seen positive responses as four of our patients have been discharged.”
Also, Kebbi State Task Force Committee on COVID-19 confirmed that samples taken from its first index case had tested negative and the patient would be discharged and integrated into society.
The Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Jafa’ar Muhammad, who is also the Commissioner for Health, spoke on Monday in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital, during a stakeholders meeting with NGOs and CSOs on COVID-19 response in the state.
“There are currently 24 confirmed cases in the state, including three deaths, and two out of the three deaths recorded died before their samples were collected.”
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