The Lagos State Government on Wednesday discharged 17 more COVID-19 patients.
After testing negative twice to the virus, the patients, six females and 11 males, were certified free of the virus and fit to recover reunite with families and friends.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu who announced the discharges said the patients were discharged from the Yaba, Gbagada and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation centres.
He said: “Good people of Lagos, today, 17 more COVID-19 Lagos patients; six females and 11 males, all Nigerians were discharged from our Yaba, Gbagada and LUTH Isolation facilities to reunite with the society.
“The patients, seven from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba; six from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and four from Gbagada General Hospital Isolation Centres were discharged, having fully recovered and tested negative to COVID-19 in two consecutive readings.
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“This brings to 649 the number of #COVID-19 confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos.”
Meanwhile, the State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has advised the public to confirm their COVID-19 status, if they are unwell, saying it was important.
Tweeting on his verified Twitter handle, Abayomi said: “What we mean to #flattenthecurve is that, we want to spread out the speed at which the virus is spreading in the community.
“We have exceeded the containment phase now. We are at the active community transmission stage.”
He explained that the government’s attention was shifting to community based isolation with the new strategy of concentrating of isolating people with severe cases, while mild cases would be managed at home.
