The Sokoto State Government said on Tuesday that 22 out of 75 coronavirus patients at its isolation centre in Amanawa after testing negative twice had been discharged.
Chairman of the State Taskforce Committee on COVID-19 and Commissioner for Health, Dr. Ali Inname, revealed this while giving a update on COVID-19 cases in the state to newsmen.
He said that as of May 11, the state had 106 confirmed COVID-19 cases as at May 11, out of which 12 patients have died.
His words: “However, out of the 75 active cases we have successfully today discharged 22 persons who dully tested negative for COVID-19, making a total number of 41 patients discharged out of the 106 confirmed cases in the state.
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“More so, the number of deaths has just increased by one today according to our update; leaving a total number of 52 active patients of COVID-19 in the state,” he said.
Giving further update, the Commissioner said that out of the 106 confirmed cases in the state 30 per cent were female while 70 per cent were male.
Inname said that the state had 874 contact cases out of which 431 persons had been successfully tested for the virus.
He urged residents not to panic as necessary measures were being taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
