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Lagos COVID-19 Recovery Toll Exceeds 1,000

Lagos state government says More than 1,000 COVID-19 patients have now recovered in the state.

This is as the state announced the discharge of 31 more persons on Sunday.

The state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who announced the development in a statement on Sunday, put the total number of patients successfully managed and discharged in the state is now 1,025.

He said the patients were discharged from isolation centres across the state after they were certified free of the infection.

“Good people of Lagos, today, 31 fully recovered ‪#COVID19 Lagos‬ patients, 25 males and 6 females, were discharged from the Onikan, Gbagada, Agidingbi, Lekki and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation facilities to reunite with the society,” he said.

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“The patients, 6 from Onikan, 4 from Gbagada, 2 from Agidingbi, 6 from Lekki and 13 from LUTH isolation centres were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to ‪#COVID19‬.

“With this, the number of ‪#COVID19‬ confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos has risen to 1025.”

Lagos currently has the highest number of confirmed cases with a total of 5,729 out of Nigeria’s 12,233 cases.

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