A total of 49 recovered COVID-19 patients have been discharged from isolation facilities in Lagos.
The announcement was made on Wednesday by Lagos State Ministry of Health via its Twitter handle.
The ministry tweeted that 28 females and 21 males including a patient from Greece were discharged from the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH), Yaba and the isolation centre at Onikan.
#COVID19Lagos Update
Breaking!
*️⃣49 #COVID19Lagos patients; 28 females & 21 males including a foreign national – a greek 🇬🇷 were today discharged from our Isolation facilities at Yaba & Onikan to reunite with the society@jidesanwoolu@NigeriaGov@followlasg@WHONigeria pic.twitter.com/PneSF3hGX9— LSMOH (@LSMOH) April 29, 2020
In a follow up tweet, the ministry stated that 18 of the patients were discharged from IDH while 31 were discharged from Onikan Isolation centre after testing negative twice to Coronavirus.
*️⃣The patients; 18 from IDH, Yaba & 31 from Onikan Isolation Centre have fully recovered & tested negative to #COVID19 in two consecutive readings
*️⃣With this, number of patients successfully managed & discharged in Lagos is now 187@DigiCommsNG#LagosAgainstCOVID19#MaskUpLagos— LSMOH (@LSMOH) April 29, 2020
A total of 187 patients have now recovered in Lagos which has the highest number of confirmed cases in the country.
However, the State remains the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria with 844 cases out of a total of 1532 across the country.
