Five Coronavirus patients who had been receiving treatment at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Lagos,  have been discharged.

The survivors include three Nigerians and two foreign nationals.

They were discharged on Monday after repeated tests carried out on them showed negative, a proof they have overcome the killer disease.

Lagos is the epicentre of the Coronavirus in Nigeria, having 68 of the total 111 cases so recorded in the Country.

Recall that three patients including the Italian index case and two Nigerians had previously been treated and discharged from the Lagos facility.

The development brings the total number of recoveries in Nigeria to eight.

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