The Lagos state government has once again announced that a total of sixteen COVID-19 Patients have been discharged from the various Isolation centres within the state.
The Governor of Lagos, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu who made the announcement in his daily briefings to Lagosians on their fight against the coronavirus in the state, said the discharged sixteen COVID-19 Patients were discharged on Wednesday 15th April 2020.
The sixteen COVID-19 Patients were fourteen males, two females, including some foreigners.
Governor Sanwo-Olu taking to his official social media accounts, posted this statement as an update to the coronavirus situation in the state. He said:
“Good people of Lagos,
I have more great news from our isolation facilities. 16 persons; 14 males and 2 females including 3 foreigners – 1 British, 1 Chinnese and 1 polish have been discharged to join the society.
The patients; 14 from IDH, Yaba and 2 from Onikan Isolation centre have fully recovered and tested negative twice consecutively to COVID-19.
This brings the number of patients successfully managed and discharged from our facilities to 86.
As our front line health workers record successes in the battle against COVID-19, we are duty bound as citizens to break the chain of transmission of the infection by staying safe at home, practice Social distancing and adopt highest possible personal hygiene.
We will continue to do our best as Government to cushion the effect of this lockdown by re-energizing our welfare package. Please keep having faith in us as we win this battle together.
Thank you all for your continued perseverance and patience ,” he added.
The discharging of the sixteen COVID-19 Patients, comes after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported late last night that there were a total of 26 confirmed cases in Lagos on 14th Tuesday April 2020. The cases took the aggregate coronavirus confirmed cases in Nigeria as at Tuesday 14th April 2020 to 373…this number is highly likely to increase before the end of today when NCDC will publish their update.