Oyo state government has discharged ninety-six coronavirus patients receiving treatment in the state’s isolation facilities after testing negative twice.
Governor Seyi Makinde, made this known in a series of tweets on Saturday, saying a total of 271 patients have recovered in the state.
He also confirmed that 35 more persons tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.
Governor Makinde stated;
95 confirmed COVID-19 cases have received their second negative test results and have been discharged. This brings the number of discharged cases in Oyo State to 271.
He added,
Also, the COVID-19 confirmation tests for thirty-five suspected cases came back positive. The cases are from Ido (seven), Ibadan SW (five), Ibadan North (five), Ibadan NW (five) Oluyole (three), Ibadan NE (three), Ibadan SE (three), Egbeda (three) and Ogbomosho North (one) Local Government Areas.
As at press time, there are 469 total number of confirmed cases in Oyo State.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Adenike Bakare, a nurse at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Ikeja has died from COVID-19.
Bakare, who was an Assistant Director, Nursing Services, died on Friday and was buried privately in Lagos same day.
It is uncertain whether she contracted the virus from LASUTH or in her community.
The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof Adetokunbo Fabamwo, confirming the death said;
She worked in the critical care unit of the hospital. You need to speak with the head of that unit to get information about contact tracing regarding the death of Nurse Bakare.
We do not treat COVID-19 in LASUTH but there will be some that were admitted unknowingly and their tests will turn out positive later. There have been many like that.
But when we see pure COVID-19 cases at presentation, we do not admit them, we take them to the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba.
