Latest Update on COVID-19 in Nigeria
Nigeria now has over 27,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 after recording additional 626 new cases under 24 hours.
According to the information released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Lagos now has 193 cases, followed by the FCT with 85, and Oyo- with 41. Others include Edo-38, Kwara-34, Abia-31, Ogun-29, Ondo-28, Rivers-26, Osun-21, Akwa Ibom-18, Delta-18, Enugu-15, Kaduna-13, Plateau-11, Borno-8, Bauchi-7, Adamawa-5, Gombe-4, and Sokoto-1.
From the 27,110 confirmed cases, 10,801 patients have been discharged with 616 deaths recorded.
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Confirmed Cases by State
| States Affected | No. of Cases (Lab Confirmed) | No. of Cases (on admission) | No. Discharged | No. of Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lagos | 10,823 | 9,060 | 1,631 | 132 |
| FCT | 2,020 | 1,377 | 608 | 35 |
| Oyo | 1,432 | 717 | 703 | 12 |
| Kano | 1,257 | 228 | 977 | 52 |
| Edo | 1,203 | 662 | 498 | 43 |
| Delta | 1,149 | 737 | 387 | 25 |
| Rivers | 1,114 | 389 | 687 | 38 |
| Ogun | 898 | 270 | 609 | 19 |
| Kaduna | 818 | 236 | 570 | 12 |
| Katsina | 578 | 114 | 441 | 23 |
| Bauchi | 512 | 34 | 466 | 12 |
| Gombe | 511 | 123 | 369 | 19 |
| Borno | 501 | 35 | 433 | 33 |
| Ebonyi | 438 | 78 | 357 | 3 |
| Plateau | 393 | 164 | 219 | 10 |
| Ondo | 353 | 223 | 110 | 20 |
| Imo | 352 | 296 | 50 | 6 |
| Abia | 351 | 141 | 207 | 3 |
| Enugu | 342 | 169 | 164 | 9 |
| Jigawa | 318 | 1 | 308 | 9 |
| Kwara | 269 | 118 | 142 | 9 |
| Bayelsa | 234 | 96 | 123 | 15 |
| Nasarawa | 213 | 92 | 113 | 8 |
| Sokoto | 152 | 16 | 121 | 15 |
| Osun | 148 | 94 | 48 | 6 |
| Niger | 116 | 64 | 45 | 7 |
| Akwa Ibom | 104 | 48 | 54 | 2 |
| Adamawa | 89 | 36 | 47 | 6 |
| Kebbi | 81 | 16 | 58 | 7 |
| Zamfara | 76 | 0 | 71 | 5 |
| Anambra | 73 | 7 | 57 | 9 |
| Benue | 65 | 34 | 30 | 1 |
| Yobe | 61 | 5 | 48 | 8 |
| Ekiti | 43 | 1 | 40 | 2 |
| Taraba | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 |
| Kogi | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
FG to medical directors: You could be held responsible for rising deaths in hospitals
The Federal Government has expressed worries over the increasing rejection of patients by hospitals, saying medical directors would be held responsible for the laxity.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who stated this on Thursday during a meeting involving the Federal Ministry of Health, the Federal Capital Territory Administration, and medical directors in the FCT, also lamented that hospitals were delaying testing of COVID-19 patients, leading to increasing coronavirus deaths.
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has, therefore, urged state governments to prepare for the worst because of the rise in the confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country.
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There had been a surge in COVID-19 cases following the delay by hospitals in releasing test results. An Ibadan-based businessman, Omololu Akinyosoye, who lost a friend to COVID-19, said that he was tested at the Jericho Specialist Hospital, Ibadan, on June 17 and told to come back for the result in two weeks.
For the fear of infection, many hospitals have been abandoning patients. For example, On May 7, a man, Wisdom Akpan, accused the health workers of a primary health centre in the Joju area of Sango in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, of denying his sister, Rose, treatment till she collapsed and died in front of the hospital.
The Federal Government has even told the hospital management to attend to emergency cases on stretchers, if there are no bed spaces.
“No emergency should be denied attention, even if it means admitting on a stretcher or an examination couch to give lifesaving oxygen. I appeal to all medical directors, who we have specifically invited here today for this message, that we shall hold each personally accountable for the outcomes emanating from your hospitals.
“You are to kindly ensure that patients are attended to with dignity and dispatch, in the spirit in which the Honourable Minister of the FCT and I have spoken,” the minister said.
