Akwa Ibom State has three suspected cases of COVID-19.

No fewer than six patients, who were held on suspicion that they have contracted COVID-19 in Akwa Ibom State, were yesterday cleared and discharged from the Isolation Centre at the Ibom Specialist Hospital, Uyo.

Of the number, three of those discharged were from the first five index cases earlier reported in the state.

However, Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dominic Ukpong, disclosed at a media briefing that two of the initial five index cases and the additional case as announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) yesterday brought the number of COVID-19 patients under watch in the state to three.