BREAKING: Lagos discharges 14 more Coronavirus patients, announces two new deaths
Another 14 Coronavirus patients have recovered and discharged in Lagos after testing negative twice for the virus.
According to the Lagos State Ministry of Health, on its twitter handle, the 14 Coronavirus patients discharged included six female and eight male.
It said seven of the discharged patients were from Onikan Isolation Centre, two from the Infectious Disease Hospital, IDH, Yaba, four the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH and one from Landmark Isolation Centre.
“14 more #COVID19 Lagos patients; 6 females and 8 males, all Nigerians were today discharged from our Isolation facilities at Yaba, Onikan, LUTH and Eti-Osa (Landmark) to reunite with the society.
“The patients; 7 from Onikan, 2 from IDH, Yaba, 4 from LUTH and 1 from the Eti-Osa (LandMark) Isolation Centres have fully recovered and tested negative twice consecutively to #COVID19.
“With this, the number of patients successfully managed and discharged in Lagos are now 261,” the government said.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi also disclosed on Monday on his twitter handle that the state recorded two new coronavirus deaths
He said this brought to 30, the total number of people who have been killed by the virus in Lagos.The commissioner added that as at Sunday, 39 new #COVID19 Infections were confirmed in Lagos.
He said the total number of confirmed #COVID19 cases in Lagos was now 1,123.
Abayomi appealed to Lagosians to make use of face masks and take all precautionary measures at home and at work to break the chain of #COVID19 transmission.
