COVID-19: 40 Health Workers Tested Positive in Nigeria

• COVID-19: 40 Health Workers Tested Positive in Nigeria

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday said about 40 health workers at the frontline of COVID-19 treatment tested positive to the deadly virus in Nigeria.

The minister disclosed this during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.

Ehanire, therefore, advised health workers to always protect themselves while giving treatments to infected patients.

The total number of infected people rose by 91 to 873 on Wednesday, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

“91 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 74 in Lagos; 5 in Katsina; 4 in Ogun; 2 in Delta; 2 in Edo; 1 in Kwara; 1 in Oyo; 1 in FCT and 1 in Adamawa,” NCDC stated on its official Twitter handle.

While the centre had discharged 197, total deaths due to the virus rose to 28 in Africa’s most populous nation.

The break down of the report revealed that Lagos now has confirmed cases of 504. Followed by FCT-119; Kano-73; Ogun-24; Katsina-21; Osun-20; Oyo-17; Edo-17; Kwara-10; Kaduna-9; Akwa Ibom-9; Borno-9; Bauchi-8; Delta-6; Gombe-5; Ekiti-4; Ondo-3; Rivers-3; Jigawa-2; Enugu-2; Niger-2; Abia-2; Benue-1; Anambra-1; Sokoto-1 and Adamawa-1.