Contary to popular notion that young people are immune to the coronavirus, the Lagos State Government has revealed that majority of its confirmed cases are youths.
Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known during Sunday’s Situation Report/ Patients Analysis.
The World Health Organisation had warned that young people are not “invincible” to the virus.
Lagos is the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria with 59 of the 97 confirmed cases, amassing just a little under 61 per cent.
According to Prof. Abayomi, most of the affected Nigerians are between the ave bracket of 30 and 39.
He further disclosed that a bulk are men – with Nigerians making up 84 per cent of the Infection.
He, however, urged citizens to continue to observe social distancing.
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All confirmed cases are clinically stable. 70% of the cases are males while 30% are females with age band most affected 30 to 39yrs (active and mobile age group)
16% of the case are foreign nationals while 84% are Nigerians.
Numbers of imported cases initially stood at 82% of total confirmed cases. 16% of the cases are contacted from imported cases. while origin of 2% of the cases couldn’t be ascertained.
Top 5 LGAs with Passengers of interest (POIs) are; Etiosa, Ikeja, Alimosho, Kosofe and Oshodi/Isolo. Covid-19 surveillance in Lagos so far targeted 2645 POIs with 2,293 under follow up while 352 POIs have exited follow-up (outside incubation period)
Activation of ICS 4 weeks prior to discovery of index case put Lagos on top of the situation. After 4 weeks, Lagos has faired better in managing the crisis compared with situation in Italy, Iran and Spain that got into exponential phase after 3-4weeks.
We are on the look out for local transmission as imported cases will drop significantly because of the closure of the airports. However, current trend indicates that community transmission is not on the rise yet.
There are 3 testing sites in Lagos; namely IDH-Yaba, @LUTHOfficial and @NIMR.
Response team @followlasg #COVID19 remain committed to aggressive containment measures against the spread of the virus. Every citizen is therefore enjoined to continue to observe social distancing.
