The index coronavirus patient in Osun state has been discharged alongside 110 Ivorian returnees.
Gboyega Oyetola, governor of the state, broke the news at a press briefing in Osogbo, the state capital, on Sunday.
He said the patient tested negative twice and was subsequently discharged.
The governor stated that 110 of the 127 Ivory Coast returnees who recently came into the state have been released to go home after being placed under isolation for suspicion of Coronavirus infection.
He said;
Upon their arrival in the state, as a proactive measure, we immediately quarantined them at an isolation centre in Ejigbo.
We later discovered upon profiling that some of these returnees are indigenes and residents of other states such as Oyo, Lagos, Ogun, Imo, Edo, Delta and Abia, among others.
Oyetola added that;
Of the 127 isolated and tested returnees, 17 tested positive for Coronavirus while 110 returned negative. Of the 17, we also have persons from other states.
Those who tested positive are undergoing adequate and proper treatment at our care centre and are all stable.
According to him, 110 returnees whose results came back negative have been released to join their families.
It would be recalled that Osun state on April 4 announced that a Coronavirus patient who had escape from the isolation centre in Ejigbo had been apprehended and returned to the centre.
The Chief Press Secretary to Osun State Governor, Ismail Omipidan, confirmed the development.
The missing patient, a woman, was said to have been apprehended in Ejigbo town and returned to the facility by the police on Saturday afternoon.
