Health

COVID -19: 220 new cases as national tally hits 2,388

Seventeen coronavirus related deaths were recorded across the country on Saturday including a runaway patient in Kebbi State.

Another suspected case is on the run from an isolation centre in Taraba State while there was an increase of 220 in the total number of infections including a four year old boy in Bauchi State.

The total number of cases in the country now stands at 2,388.

Three hundred and eighty five cases were discharged, according to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in an update last night.

The breakdown of the fresh  cases are: 62-Lagos; 52-FCT; 31-Kaduna;13-Sokoto; 10-Kebbi; 9-Yobe; 6-Borno; 5-Edo; 5-Bauchi; 4-Gombe; 4-Enugu; 4-Oyo; 3-Zamfara; 2-Nasarawa; 2-Osun; 2-Ebonyi; 2-Kwara; 2-Kano; and 2-Plateau.

The Lagos State Ministry of Health said four more COVID-19 patients died of complications from the disease in the state.

The ministry said on its Twitter handle that the deaths occurred on Friday to bring the number of deaths in the state to 25.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said separately that 22 more persons – eight females and 14 males, all Nigerians were discharged from Isolation facilities at Yaba, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and Lekki.

The patients, 19 from LUTH, two from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba and one from the Isolation facility at Lekki were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to COVID-19 in two consecutive readings.

This brings to 247 the number of #COVID19 confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos.

One dies in Osun, three health workers, others recover

The Osun State government reported the death of a COVID-19 patient and the discharge of four others three of whom are health workers.

Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan said: “We lost a COVID-19 patient in her late 60s at our isolation centre in Osogbo. We pray to God to grant her eternal rest and give her family the fortitude to bear the loss.

“Also, we have discharged three health workers and a United Kingdom returnee who has been in our isolation centre for 38days after testing negative twice.”

Borno records 11 deaths, infection of 16 health workers

The Borno State government said 11 patients have lost their lives to the disease in the state.

Sixteen others, all of them health workers, tested positive for coronavirus in the state, according to Deputy Governor Usman Umar Kadafur.

Kadafur who doubles as the chairman of the response team for the prevention and control of the spread of coronavirus in the state told reporters that the committee has been working round the clock to check the spread of the disease.

Kaduna records first COVID-19 death, 14 new cases

Kaduna State recorded its first COVID-19 death  and 14 fresh cases yesterday, according to Health Commissioner  Amina Mohammed-Baloni.

The deceased was identified as a retired civil servant who had concealed his recent travel to Kano.

He was also said to have underlying medical conditions which had taken him to a public hospital and a private hospital.

The commissioner said: “He was eventually admitted at the isolation centre with respiratory distress. He died before his positive test result was released.

“He is the first COVID-19 fatality in Kaduna State. His family has been informed of his demise and he has since been buried according to the burial protocol of the NCDC.”

She officials of the State’s ministry of health had decontaminated the two hospitals visited by the deceased.

She said the 14 new cases were almajiris who were repatriated from Kano.

The commissioner assured the public that there was no cause for alarm as all the repatriated almajiris had been isolated.

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