BREAKING: ENUGU STATE SECOND COVID-19 PATIENT DISCHARGED

The second COVID-19 patient in Enugu State has been discharged. This comes barely twenty-four hours after the first COVID-19 patient was discharged. A statement by the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Ike Obi announced the discharge of the second patient from the state’s COVID-19 Treatment and Isolation Centre.

“Recall that the NCDC had announced 2 cases of COVID 19 in Enugu who were in Isolation and receiving care. “Yesterday, the Enugu State Ministry of Health announced that one patient had been discharged.

“Two of them are now Negative for the Corona virus and have been discharged,” the statement indicated.

The statement encouraged residents of the state not to lose guard but to maintain personal hygiene, social distancing and other prescribed precautionary measures to contain the Coronavirus disease.

“We encourage our people to continue to stay home, try not to touch your face without having washed your hands, maintain strict hand and respiratory hygiene, wear a facemask in line with the NCDC’s advisory and maintain physical distancing,” the statement advised. With the latest discharge, Enugu State has no COVID-19 case.

CHUKWUBUIKE MADU