Edo State Government has discharged thirteen more COVID-19 patients.
This brings to a total of one hundred and nine discharged cases who tested negative for the virus and were cleared from the state’s treatment centres.
Unfortunately, The state also recorded five deaths at the Stella Obasanjo Hospital Treatment Centre and the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, bringing the number of fatalities in the state to twenty-four.
Governor Godwin Obaseki, who disclosed this in a statement, noted that most of the deaths recorded in the state are persons above the age of sixty.
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The Governor, however, appealed to the residents to compliment the state government’s efforts at curtailing the spread of the virus by complying with all guidelines and safety measures to contain the pandemic across all communities.
Editor :Tunde Orebiyi
