The Lagos State Ministry of Health has announced the recovery and discharge of 17 COVID-19 patients after testing negative twice consecutively.
The ministry, through its verified Twitter handle on Thursday, announced the discharge of six females and 11 males.
The latest discharge brings the total number of recoveries from the virus in the state to 649.
Seven of the patients were released from Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, six patients from LUTH Isolation Centre, four Gbagada Isolation Centre.
Meanwhile, the state government has announced its plans to start managing coronavirus patients with mild symptoms at their respective homes. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, announced the move in a statement on Wednesday. The commissioner said only infected persons with severe symptoms of COVID-19 would be admitted to isolation centres in the state.
“We have exceeded the containment phase now. We are at the active community transmission stage,” Abayomi said.
“We will be concentrating on people with severe cases and isolating them while mild cases will be managed at home. Our attention is shifting to community based isolation,” he added.
