Five Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Edo State have been discharged after testing negative twice for the disease, the government has announced.

Godwin Godwin Obaseki stated this on his twitter handle on Friday.

He wrote “I am pleased to announce that 5 of the confirmed cases in #EdoState have now tested negative twice for Covid-19. They have thus been discharged.”

According to the tweet, this has bolstered his administration’s resolve to defeat “this common enemy, as we roll out more measures to check the spread of Covid-19.”

Edo, before now has a total of 15 confirmed cases of the virus.

Nigeria on whole, has a total number of 442 confirmed cases of the disease, with 152 discharge and 13 deaths.