Local: Eight COVID-19 patients discharged in Adamawa state
The state
Commissioner of Health, Prof Abdullahi Isa, on Friday confirmed that Adamawa
State Government has discharged eight patients from its coronavirus treatment
centre in Yola. The eight bring to 13 the number of patients who have so far
been certified free of the virus in the state after five were first discharged
on Monday.
This is in
line with the protocol of the Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC). We
had earlier discharged five on Monday and eight today.
Adamawa State
had 16 active cases until the fresh discharge of eight, bringing the active
cases down to eight, out a total of 21 confirmed cases since the index case was
recorded on the 22nd of last month.
Prof Abdullahi
Isa confirmed that Adamawa State indeed has only eight patients at its
treatment centre and expressed the optimism that they would all recover and be
discharged soon.
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