{"id":23994,"date":"2020-04-16T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23994"},"modified":"2020-04-16T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:35:01","slug":"kwara-state-discharges-seven-coronavirus-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kwara-state-discharges-seven-coronavirus-patients","title":{"rendered":"Kwara State discharges seven coronavirus patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria :<\/p>\n<p>Kwara State Government has discharged seven people who were infected with coronavirus in the state after recovering from the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad to announce to you that we have discharged two of our four confirmed covid -19 cases in Kwara,\u201d Abdulrazaq tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was done after they both twice tested negative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor also also disclosed that five other people who have tested negative twice to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>These other five people, Abdulrazaq said, are family members of the confirmed cases who \u201cwere taken to a different part of the isolation centre out of abundance of caution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the discharge of the seven persons, the governor said 11 persons are left in the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of these 11 are COVID-19 patients while the remaining nine are people who haven\u2019t tested positive but have had varying contacts with the confirmed cases,\u201d Abdulrazaq said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are all doing pretty good, and we wish the remaining two patients quick recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abdulrazaq noted that the recoveries is a testament that COVID-19 is not a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, warned members of the public against stigmatising the coronavirus survivors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will punish anyone who stigmatises any of our patients or members of their families,\u201d Ad<\/p>\n<p>He commended all health workers in the state and residents for their support to the government in containing coronavirus in Kwara State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria : Kwara State Government has discharged seven people who were infected with coronavirus in the state after recovering from the disease. \u201cI\u2019m glad to announce to you that we have discharged two of our four confirmed covid -19 cases in Kwara,\u201d Abdulrazaq tweeted. \u201cThis was done after they both twice tested negative.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,1437],"tags":[1451,74],"class_list":["post-23994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-files","tag-covid-19","tag-kwara-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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