CoronavirusNewsNigeria8 COVID-19 Patients Discharged In Adamawa Isolation Centre

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The Adamawa state government says it has discharged eight more COVID-19 patients from isolation centre in Yola.

The state commissioner for health, Professor Abdullahi Isa who dropped the hint on Friday, said that the eight were discharged eight after they all tested negative twice for the coronavirus.

” This is in line with the protocol of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. We had earlier discharged 5 on Monday and eight today, ” said he.

He said from the inception,  Adamawa state has 181  suspected cases while 21 twenty were diagnosed positive.

Professor Isa noted that as at the time of the briefing,  there are only eight patients at the isolation center and expressed the hope that they will also test negative in subsequent tests.

He stressed that it has gone a long way to prove to those who are skeptical about the disease, that the disease is in existence and people could come out fully treated.

The commissioner expressed Governor Fintiri’s appreciation to people of the state for their understanding and support during the period of containment of COVID nineteen

For now, the state had a total of 21 COVID-19 patients at one of the isolation centres in the state capital, Yola. With this development, only 8 patients are left at the isolation centre.

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)
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