Lagos discharges another 13 COVID-19 patients

Lagos State Government says it has discharged another 13 COVID-19 patients from its Yaba and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) isolation facilities to reunite with the society.

The state government, through its verified Twitter handle, said on Thursday that the patients were two females and 11 males, all Nigerians.

“The patients: four from Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba; nine from LUTH Isolation Centres, have fully recovered & tested negative, twice consecutively to #COVID19.

“With this, the number of patients successfully managed & discharged in Lagos has risen to 541,” it said.

Earlier, the state Commissioner for health, Prof Abayomi, made some clarifications concerning the death of a Nigerian who recently returned from Dubai that died at one of the isolation centres did not die from Coronavirus has earlier reported.

“I hereby inform the general public that the Nigerian who recently returned from Dubai as part of a group of returnees who were placed in a #COVID19 isolation program in lekki, developed complications and was transferred to one of our facilities where he died. Because of the sudden nature of his demise and without any prior knowledge of his multiple preexisting conditions it was presumed to be a #COVID19 related death pending confirmation by #COVID19 Gold standard test.

This presumptive attribution is a precaution to ensure the safe clinical management of the patient and subsequent handling of the corpse.The definitive #COVID19 gold standard test has turned out to be negative for the #COVID19 infection and his death is no longer considered to have been attributable to #COVID19”