Lagos State Ministry of Health (LSMOH) has announced the discharge of 22 more coronavirus patients on Thursday after testing negative twice.
The ministry disclosed this on its official Twitter page, saying those discharged includes 6 female and 16 male.
#COVID19Lagos Update as at 11th June, 2020
*️⃣ 22 fully recovered #COVID19Lagos patients; 6 females & 16 males were discharged from our Isolation facilities to reunite with the society.@jidesanwoolu@followlasg@NigeriaGov@ProfAkinAbayomi@WHONigeria@NCDCgov@DigiCommsNG@WHO pic.twitter.com/SupXIHFLyD— LSMOH (@LSMOH) June 12, 2020
LSMOH added that the patients were discharged from the Onikan, Gbagada, Agidingbi, Lekki, FCC and LUTH isolation centres.
This brings the total number of discharged patients in the state to 1,047.
*️⃣The patients; 9 from Onikan, 2 from Gbagada, 1 from Agidingbi, 6 from Lekki, 1 from FCC and 3 from LUTH Isolation Centres were discharged after testing negative to #COVID19.
*️⃣ With this, the number of #COVID19 cases successfully managed & discharged in Lagos has risen to 1047
— LSMOH (@LSMOH) June 12, 2020
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Gombe State Task Force, Idris Mohammed, has confirmed the death of one Abubakar Mohammed from coronavirus.
The deceased is a Senior Registrar in Paediatrics at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe.
According to Idris Mohammed, the man died three days ago but the COVID-19 test result returned positive on Friday.
The Chairman stated that the deceased was the first health worker to die of the virus in the state.
With this confirmation, there are now 12 coronavirus associated deaths in the state.
