Posted on: Tue 12-05-2020

Lagos State Government on Monday said it has discharged 33 persons who tested positive for coronavirus after recovering from the disease. “Today, 33 more #COVID19Lagos patients; 24 males and 9 females, all Nigerians were discharged from our isolation facilities to reunite with the society,” Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said in a statement.

Sanwo-Olu disclosed that 17 of the patients are from Onikan and 16 from Eti-Osa isolation centres have fully recovered and tested negative twice consecutively to COVID19. This latest discharge brings the total number of cases successfully managed to full recovery in Lagos State to 502 and 33 deaths recorded so far. “We are encouraged by this trend of recoveries and we believe it will continue,” Sanwo-Olu said.

Currently, the total number coronavirus cases in Nigeria is 4,399. Lagos State, the hardest-hit by the disease has 1,845 of the cases.

Source: Guardian 

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