Kano discharges 3 coronavirus patients

Kano state has discharged three coronavirus patients who had tested negative for the virus after about three weeks of treatment.

The Coordinator of the Technical Response Team on COVID-19, Dr Tijjani Hussain disclosed this on Tuesday during the briefing of the state task force.

The patients were discharged after testing negative for the disease twice according to stipulated protocols laid down by the Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control(NCDC).

Meanwhile, over thirty medical doctors across public and private hospitals in Kano have been infected with coronavirus, according to the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA.

The Chairman of the state chapter of NMA, Dr Sanusi Mohammed Bala confirmed that the state had already lost one of the medical doctors to the disease.

Almost 100 coronavirus-related deaths have now been recorded in Nigeria, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, which confirmed 245 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday.

According to the report by the NCDC, 93 deaths have been recorded and 417 patients treated and discharged from total confirmed cases of 2,802 recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

According to a post on the official Twitter handle of the agency, laboratory tests confirmed 245 new cases of coronavirus infections on Monday.

The new cases were confirmed in epicentre of the virus, Lagos and 15 other states, including the FCT.

The breakdown of the new cases are Lagos-76, Katsina-37, Kano-23, FCT-19, Jigawa-32, Borno-18, Edo-10, Bauchi-9, Adamawa-6, Oyo-5, Ogun-5, Ekiti-1, Osun-1, Benue-1, Niger-1,  and Zamfara-1.

More than a quarter of a million people have died from the novel coronavirus worldwide, with over 85 percent of them in Europe and the United States, according to an AFP tally of official figures.

At 2230 GMT on Monday, the US had recorded 68,689 virus deaths, the most for any single country, while Europe was the hardest-hit continent with 145,023 confirmed fatalities.