Five more patients undergoing treatment at isolation centres in Lagos State have been discharged.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known in a tweet on Friday.
He said that the five newly-discharged patients bring the total number of patients that have recovered in the state to 90.
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He also confirmed the 19 new confirmed cases recorded in the state on Thursday.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control had announced that 19 of the 35 new COVID-19 cases recorded on Thursday were in Lagos.
Abayomi tweeted, “19 new confirmed cases of #COVID-19 Infection recorded in Lagos on the 16th of April. This brings the total number of confirmed Lagos #COVID-19 cases to 254.
“Five fully recovered #COVID-19 patients were discharged. Total discharged #COVID-19 patients are now 90.”
