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Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, says the bed occupancy level in the state’s public and private COVID-19 care centres had increased to 51 per cent.
Abayomi in a post on his verified Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi, on Friday gave the eight care centres as Infectious Disease Hospital 1 and 2, Yaba; Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Armour, Paelon, Vedic, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta.
The commissioner said the care centres had 448 bed capacity, with 219 bed spaces currently unoccupied.
He also said the level of oxygen usage for COVID-19 patients had increased at the IDH, Yaba, adding that the initial projection for oxygen usage in IDH was 70 cylinders per day, but that over 71 per cent increase had been recorded there.
“Given the increases in cases, oxygen usage is expected to increase,” he said.
He said that the total number of COVID-19 tests conducted in the state since inception of the pandemic stood at 234,508.
He added, “Cases currently under isolation – 170, active cases under home based care are 6,203.”
Giving an update on the severity of the cases, the commissioner said 48 per cent of the patients had mild symptoms, 35 per cent had moderate symptoms, while 16 per cent were severe and one per cent had critical symptoms.
The commissioner added that 54 per cent of the patients exhibited symptoms on admission, 46 per cent had no symptoms, while 30 per cent of infected patients had co-morbidities.
He listed the exhibited symptoms to include cough, fever, shortness of breath, general weakness, chest pain, anosmia, catarrh, loss of taste and appetite, nausea, chills, and dizziness.
Abayomi said studies had shown that COVID-19 spreads through droplets released when talking, coughing, sneezing or singing, adding, “Wearing masks reduces the spray of these droplets. #TakeResponsibility to #MaskUp in public. No one is sure who is infected!”