Lagos discharges 15 COVID-19 patients

April 27, 2020 7:15 pm

Fifteen COVID-19 patients have been discharged in Lagos after testing negative twice for coronavirus.

The state ministry of health made the announcement on its Twitter handle on Monday evening.

The patients, 11 females and four males, including an Indian, were discharged from the isolation facilities at Yaba and Onikan in Lagos.

A total of 138 COVID-19 patients have now been discharged in the state.

#COVID19Lagos Update
Breaking!
*️⃣15 more #COVID19Lagos patients; 11 females & 4 males including a foreign national – an Indian ?? were today discharged from our Isolation facilities at Yaba & Onikan to reunite with the society@jidesanwoolu @NigeriaGov @followlasg @WHONigeria pic.twitter.com/2uYrPn5Frd

— LSMOH (@LSMOH) April 27, 2020

Lagos currently has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country; as at April 26, 2020, of the 746 confirmed cases in the state, 15 have been transferred, two persons have been evacuated, and 19 fatalities recorded.

Addressing a press conference on Saturday, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, had urged residents to claim corpses in order to decongest mortuaries, otherwise, mass burial would be conducted.

“If we’re unable to see a decongestion of mortuaries across the state within the next two weeks, Lagos state government will now be compelled to seek to have a mass burial and we would not want to force this on anybody, which is why we are asking for the cooperation of all of us,” he’d said.