Lagos State may have no more bed spaces for coronavirus patients in the next three weeks if the current rate of infection keeps rising, Health Commissioner Akin Abayomi warned on Friday.
Confirmed cases across the country rose by 328 to a total of 11844 yesterday according to figures released by the National Centre for Disease Control .“If we keep getting 150, 200 positives every day, in another two or three weeks, even though we’re opening new isolation centres all the time, in time, we’re going to run out of beds,” Abayomi told reporters in Ikeja.He said: “We’ve been testing more.
“If we carry on with the rate of positive testing that we are obtaining, we’re going to run out of isolation beds in our established isolation facilities. “Therefore, we are projecting. If we keep getting 150, 200 positives everyday, in another two or three weeks, even though we’re opening new isolation centres all the time, in time, we’re going to run out of beds.”
A breakdown of the fresh infections released last night by the NCDC is as follows:Lagos-121; FCT-70; Bauchi-25; Rivers-18 ;Oyo-16; Kaduna-15; Gombe-14; Edo-13 ;Ogun-13 ;Jigawa-8; Enugu-6 ;Kano-5 ;Osun-2 ;and Ondo-2 .
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