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Osun SSG, 21 Others Recover From COVID-19 As Recovery Toll Hits 110
The Osun State Government on Saturday announced that the Secretary to the Government, Wole Oyebamiji, has recovered from the coronavirus disease.
It was reported earlier that the SSG, Oyebamiji had tested positive for the virus but after 10 days of treatment, he has emerged one of the others who have recovered from the virus.
Also twenty-one other patients were confirmed negative, making the total number of recovered patients as of July 10, 2020, twenty-two.
The state’s Commissioner for Health, Rafiu Isamotu, announced this in a statement.
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He noted that Oyebamiji was confirmed fully recovered on Friday after the test carried out on him returned negative.
Isamotu said that the state recorded 23 more infections and that they were contacts from previous cases in the state.
Isamotu explained that some of the staff in the office of the SSG who had previously tested positive were among those who tested negative and noted that the patients have been discharged.
He then appealed to residents of the state to always observe all the precautionary measures laid down against the spread of the virus.
He said that the number of confirmed cases in the state rose to 233 with 116 active cases and that 110 total recoveries and seven fatalities have so far been recorded.
On the 10th of July 2020, 575 new confirmed cases and 20 deaths were recorded in Nigeria.
Till date, 31323 cases have been confirmed, 12795 cases have been discharged and 709 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The 575 new cases are reported from 18 states- Lagos(224), Oyo(85), FCT(68), Rivers(49), Kaduna(39), Edo(31), Enugu(30), Delta(11), Niger(10), Katsina(9), I hopeEbonyi(5), Gombe(3), Jigawa(3), Plateau(2), Nassarawa(2), Borno(2), Kano(1), Abia(1).
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