75 percent of the patients contracted Covid-19 through unknown sources, 23 percent of patients through contact with people who returned from abroad HealthWorkers Coronavirus Health COVID19
He observed 299 deaths so far recorded in the country represent a case ratio of 3 percent adding that Nigeria has the third highest number of confirmed cases in the continent after South Africa and Egypt.
Also speaking, Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire disclosed that the Federal Medical Center Lokoja and University of Calabar Teaching Hospital will be prioritized for the deployment of Gene Xpert machines as soon as the test kits are validated by the Medical Laboratory Science Council, so that citizens in Kogi and Cross River State, among others, will no longer have a shortage of opportunity to be tested.
Ehanire disclosed that a team from the ministry led by the ED of NPHCDA and comprising doctors from Departments of Family Health, Hospital Services and Public Health and NCDC, is in Lagos on an appraisal visit, during which a situation analysis will be conducted. Ehanire noted that expanding laboratory and testing capacity all over Nigeria and growing community transmission rate both contribute to the increase in the number of COVID-19 positives we are observing in recent days.
He also urged all the employers, employees and leaders of sectors allowed to re-open to diligently comply with non-pharmaceutical measures prescribed in the guidelines and the protocols agreed by State governments.
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