Lagos discharges oldest COVID-19 patient, a 98-yr-old woman

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday revealed that the state government has discharged its oldest COVID-19 patient, a 98-year-old woman.

According to the governor, who stated this on his Twitter handle on Wednesday, the 98-year-old woman was one of the 26 patients discharged in the state on Wednesday.

He tweeted: “Today, we discharged a 98-year-old woman, our oldest COVID-19 patient in Lagos. She joined 25 others: 13 males and 12 females, discharged from our isolation centres after testing negative for COVID-19, bringing the total of our successfully managed and discharged patients to 528.

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“The patients, six from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, 11 from Onikan and nine from LUTH Isolation Centres were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to COVID-19 in two consecutive readings.”

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