Lagos State Government has discharged an additional 42 coronavirus patients from its isolation facilities after testing negative twice for the virus.
Gboyega Akosile, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu made the announcement in a tweet on Friday.
He stated that 22 of the discharged patients are males and 20 are females.
#COVID19 Update by the Incident Commander, Gov. @jidesanwoolu
Good people of Lagos,
42 more persons; 22 males and 20 females, all Nigerians have been discharged from our Isolation facilities today to reunite with the society.
— Gboyega Akosile (@gboyegaakosile) May 8, 2020
In a follow up tweet, Akosile said;
The patients, 32 from Eti-Osa (Landmark), 8 from Lekki and 2 from Onikan Isolation centres were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to COVID-19 in two consecutive readings.
— Gboyega Akosile (@gboyegaakosile) May 8, 2020
This brings the number of COVID-19 cases successfully managed in the state to 448.
This brings to 448, the number of #COVID19 confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos State Isolation facilities.
— Gboyega Akosile (@gboyegaakosile) May 8, 2020
As of Thursday evening, Lagos had recorded 1,491 COVID-19 cases, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
Similarly, Gombe State Government has announced the discharge of 20 COVID-19 patients in the state.
The state Commissioner for Health, Ahmed Gana, who made this known on Friday, said they were discharged after testing negative twice.
Gana said;
We are happy to inform the general public that NCDC has given us go ahead to discharge a total of 20 cases under our isolation facilities.
Ten from Kwadon Isolation facility and the second 10 were from Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH) Gombe Isolation center.
Gombe State has recorded 109 confirmed cases of the disease.
The newly discharged cases comes a day after Gombe State Task Force on COVID-19 reacted to the protest of coronavirus patients that took to the streets on May 5.
It would be recalled that coronavirus patients in Gombe protested alleged poor condition at the isolation centre in Yamaltu Deba local government area.
Many of them decried the alleged ill-treatment from the COVID-19 task force and the state government.
Dr Mohammed Kwami, the State Focal Officer on COVID-19 pandemic Response however described the protest as an “emotional protest”.
He stated that the protest was not caused by the authorities neglect of the patients, but a misplaced emotional aggression that went out of hand.
Kwami stressed that the task force under the leadership, of Prof. Idris Mohammed, was responsive and proactive in its assignment.
