Bed occupancy level at different care centres in Lagos, Nigeria’s epicentre of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic has climbed to 53 percent, Akin Abayomi, state commissioner for health, disclosed.
Abayomi, through his Facebook account @ProfAkinolaAbayomi on Tuesday, while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for September 5, said in line with the state’s mitigation strategy, the government was increasing the numbers of isolation centres for treatment of patients as third wave lingers.
The commissioner listed the eight care centres to include Infectious Disease Hospital 1, Yaba, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Armour, Paelon, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta. Others are INDO, Grover and Gbagada Isolation Centre.
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He said the care centres have 410 bed capacity, with 193 bed spaces currently unoccupied. The commissioner that the state recorded 185 new COVID-19 infections on the reported date, increasing the state’s total COVID-19 infections to 73,995.
The commissioner stated that the total number of COVID-19 tests conducted in the state since inception of the pandemic stood at 700,999.
Abayomi said that 73 percent of the tests were conducted by private laboratories accredited by the state government, while 27 per cent were done at the state public laboratories.
He said that 4,883 COVID-19 patients who had been successfully treated and recovered were discharged from the state’s care centres.
“Total number of COVID-19 recovery in communities is 65, 128.
“Cases currently under isolation are 231, while active cases under home-based care are 3,180,” he stated.
Abayomi noted that the state recorded three new COVID-19 related fatalities, increasing the total deaths to 573.
“During the third wave of this pandemic, we have recorded about 199 COVID-19 related deaths in Lagos state,” he said.
According to the commissioner, Lagos State has a 10.6 percent average positivity rate and 0.77 percent fatality rate.
