Sani Aliyu, national coordinator of the presidential task
force (PTF) on COVID-19, says about 80 percent of COVID-19 cases in the country
are being managed outside isolation centres.
He disclosed this in his response to a question at the PTF
briefing on Thursday.
According to him, there were concerns on availability of bed
spaces considering the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases across the country.
“Availability of beds vary across states. About 80% of those
that are positive in the country are currently being managed outside isolation
facilities,” he said.
“Some states have a lot of capacity in terms of beds. I know
Kano and Lagos have run out of beds. A few other states are red. We actually
have a line listing, an amber-coloured listing of states that are in the red
where you have more positive cases than beds available.
“We cannot move patients around from one state to the other,
so obviously, if we run out of spaces — Lagos, for instance, may have five or
six times the number of cases than Kano which is the second state in terms of
numbers of cases — you are going to have a lot of people contributing to that
population.”
As of June 10, 2020, more than 13,000 COVID-19 cases had
been confirmed in 35 states and the federal capital territory, and out of this
figure, 4,351 recoveries and 382 deaths have been recorded.
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