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The deadly Coronavirus has struck four more Lagosians dead, according to the Lagos State Government.
This brings to 42 the total number of people who have died of Coronavirus in Lagos since the outbreak of the epidemic.
According to the Lagos State Ministry of Health on its twitter handle, Lagos recorded four more Coronavirus deaths on Wednesday.
Lagos currently has 2,954 confirmed cases of Coronavirus, of which 649 had been discharged, leaving active cases of 2,332 for the state to manage.
Earlier on Thursday, the state government raised the alarm over alarming rate at which people who tested positive for Coronavirus are absconding from treatment.
Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, at a news conference in Ikeja, Lagos, said the huge figures being announced as positive cases in Lagos were just on paper as there is increasing rate of abscondment in the state.
He said the reason for the high rate of abscondment might be due to stigmatization.
“As we diagnose and try to find patients, we can’t find them, the trend is increasing, maybe because of the stigmatisation. We are working hard to know why people are stigmatised. There are people practising self-home isolation, some gives us fake numbers, they abscond, they are isolating themselves.
He appealed to Lagos residents to stop hiding their COVID-19 status, especially those who have tested positive and encouraged those around them to stop stigmatizing such individuals.
The Commissioner, who announced that so far 16,000 tests have been conducted in Lagos, said the State was currently conducting 800 tests per day at four testing laboratories and was due to ramp up the testing capacity to 1000 per day very soon.
While describing the daily increase in the number of positive cases announced in Lagos by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC as normal and within parameters, Abayomi said the State is expecting to see about 250 positive cases per day from next week.
He said the State would be abiding by the NCDC’s recommendation on the use of one negative test reading before discharging COVID-19 patients.
The Commissioner explained that the State was currently conducting clinical trial of hydroxy-chloroquine and would soon begin the validation of rapid tests kits.
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