The Lagos State government has explained how it 15 cases of the Coronavirus were found in a vessel at the port.
Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi gave the breakdown of how they found a 51-man vessel with 15 carriers of the coronavirus.
“The ship had a positive case, we airlifted the positive case off the ship and we went to backtest the 51-crew officials. We initially found seven positive, we removed the seven from the ship to Yaba and the company has isolated the remaining 44. Of those 44, another eight tested positive”.
He explained that after throug analysis of the situation and persons for a period of time, the medical officials discovered a total of 15 cases from that vessel “that was maneuvering off the coast of Lagos, doing some oil and gas work”.
On the transmission that happened within the state, Abayomi added that none of the remaining 66 cases were experiencing any severe symptoms.
“If we were to put a percentage on those 66, I would estimate the 33 out of those 66 are mild and about 33 are showing moderate disease just characterized by severe fever, feeling weak, some coughing and headache and body pains. But it is not extending to affect the organs such that we have lung or kidney failure.
“Most of our patients are experiencing a very mild to moderate degree of illness. In fact, we don’t have anybody that is requiring ventilation at the moment which is a symptom of what you would describe as severe disease,” According to commissioner Abayomi.
Already the state has started the process of aggressive contact tracing of those with the risk of the infection, to contain the spread of the disease.
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