The Lagos state
government has discharged five coronavirus patients who were receiving
treatment at Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba.
The patients were
discharged on Monday.
Earlier, the government
had announced that six of the patients had recovered and would be discharged
soon.
The total number of
those who have recovered is now eight.
According to the
state government, the patients, who had been in quarantine for four weeks, were
finally discharged after mutiple test results showed that they were now fully
recovered from the disease.
Nigeria now has a
total number of 111 coronavirus cases spread across 10 states and the FCT.
Of the 111 confirmed
cases, Lagos has 68; the FCT 21, Oyo seven and Ogun three.
Enugu, Edo, Bauchi
and Osun all have two cases each while Ekiti, Rivers, Benue and Kaduna all have
one case each.
Only one death has
been recorded so far.
On Sunday, President
Muhammadu Buhari ordered a lockdown of Lagos, Abuja and Ogun state to contain
the disease.
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