Lagos discharges 33 COVID-19 patients as recovered patients surpasses 500

Thirty-three more COVID-19 patients in Lagos have recovered and have now been discharged.

This brings the total number of recoveries in the state to 502, according to the Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi in a tweet on Tuesday.

502 recoveries represent 26 per cent of the total infections in the state which stood at 1,933 as of May 11.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had reported 242 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing its total infections in the country to 4,641.

Of the 242 cases, 88 were discovered in Lagos which remains the epicenter of the virus in the country.

As the state and the country at large, continue to battle the virus, there have been calls for the government to improve testing capacity even as the rate of community spread has been on the rise.

On Saturday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu disclosed that the current laboratory testing capacity for the state is 850 persons per day.

According to the governor, this can, however, be expanded to about 1,500 to 2,000 daily with the availability of adequate extraction kits.