The Lagos State Government on Monday discharged five coronavirus patients who were receiving treatment at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba.
This has increased the number of those who had recovered from the viral disease and discharged at the hospital from 3 to 8.
Daily Trust reports that as at Monday morning, Lagos had 68 confirmed cases of COVID-19 recieving treatment at the hospital.
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According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), “fourteen new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 9 in Lagos and 5 in FCT, as at 09:30pm 29th March.”
It had also recorded 111 confirmed cases of #COVID19 with 1 death nationwide as at Sunday night.
Following the rising number of confirmed cases in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari had last night ordered a total lockdown of Abuja, Lagos and Ogun states, as part of measures aimed at curbing the spread of the disease.
In a special presidential broadcast, he had also listed several government’s interventions put in place to tackle the disease.
He also gave lists of organisations and people who were not to be affected by the lockdown order during the nationwide broadcast aired on national television and radio yesterday.
Daily Trust had earlier reported that Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, also confirmed testing positive to the COVID-19 on Saturday in a tweet posted on his official Twitter account: @GovKaduna.
El-Rufai joined other Nigerian leaders including Bauchi state Governor, Bala Abdukadir Mohammed, and the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, who had tested positive for the COVID-19 disease.
Most states of the federation have now declared total lockdown as part of efforts to reduce the spread of the virus in the country.
