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April 22, 2020 NCDC Records 117 New Cases of Covid-19, The Highest So Far

NCDC Records 117 New Cases of Covid-19, The Highest So Far

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced 117 new cases of the coronavirus, the highest so far recorded daily in the country.

In a tweet, the NCDC said out of the news cases, 59 were recorded in Lagos, FCT 29, Kano 14, Borno 6; Katisna 4; Ogun, 3; Rivers 1 and Bauchi state 1.

The country’s total infections now stand at 782.

While deaths have risen to 25, at least 197 patients have recovered from the disease.

Further breakdown shows Lagos with 430, FCT-118, Kano-73, Osun-20, Ogun-20, Oyo-16, Katsina-16, Edo-15, Kwara-9, Kaduna-9, Akwa Ibom-9, Borno-9, Bauchi-8, Gombe-5, Delta-4, Ekiti-4, Ondo-3, Rivers-3, Jigawa-2, Enugu-2, Niger-2, Abia-2, Benue-1, Anambra-1 and Sokoto-1.

But 12 states including; Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Imo and Kebbi were yet to record any case of the infection.

April 20, 2020 68-year-old Woman Gives Birth To Twins

68-year-old Woman Gives Birth To Twins

A 68-year-old woman has given birth to a set of twins at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba.

A statement signed by the Chairman, Medical Advisory Council of LUTH, Prof WASIU ADEYEMO, said the woman was pregnant for the first time after undergoing In Vitro Fertilisation.

 

He said that she was delivered on April 14 through an elective Caesarean section, at 37 weeks gestation.

Adeyemo said that the IVF and embryo transfer were done at a facility outside LUTH.

He further said that the woman was, thereafter, referred to LUTH at early gestation and was subsequently managed till she was delivered, saying that this is the first in LUTH, Lagos and Africa.

April 20, 2020 PDP Tells Buhari To Extend Financial Intervention To Other States.

PDP Tells Buhari To Extend Financial Intervention To Other States.

The Peoples Democratic Party has called on President BUHARI to extend a similar financial intervention that was released to Lagos State to all other states of the federation.

The party in a statement by its Spokesman, KOLA OLOGBONDIYAN, asked that the CBN should open an arrangement with commercial banks for the suspension of charges for use of ATM cards as part of the panacea to ease the burden of poor Nigerians during the COVID-19 lockdown.

He said the party urges the Federal Government to activate a similar social sustenance scheme to immediately defray electricity tariff, particularly in areas populated by low income and vulnerable Nigerians across the country within the period of the lockdown.

According to him, the PDP is worried that Government is to reach most vulnerable Nigerians, whose survival directly depends on daily income in the markets that have been crippled by the COVID-19 lockdown.

April 20, 2020 Only Three LGA’s Are Without Covid-19 Cases Says Govt

Only Three LGA’s Are Without Covid-19 Cases Says Govt

Only three Local Government Areas in Lagos state were yet to record any case of Coronavirus.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor AKIN ABAYOMI made this known during the state’s COVID19 press briefing.

He said statistics from 20 original local government areas in the state shows that Lagos Mainland Local Government currently has the highest number of cases.

According to him, the virus is now being transmitted within communities.

Professor ABAYOMI also said that the state has increased the capacity of its isolation facilities.

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