By Edwin Eriye
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, Friday, said 113 Nigerian medical doctors, have tested positive to coronavirus. Blackboxnigeria gathered.
The minister, who made the disclosure in Abuja, Thursday, at a briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 said the majority of the infected doctors are from private hospitals.
“As for 300 doctors testing positive, that’s a fable, there are not so many people in the health sector who are infected. The latest figure we have is that they’re about 113 actually and these 113 are not all public health workers, a good number are from private hospitals.
“And you could hear us speaking here frequently against people treating coronavirus in private clinics. We’re actually referring to people who do so without the necessary precautions, without the necessary training. They infect themselves and then go home and give these infections to their family and it’s not the right thing.
“So, the healthcare workers who have no training have no business actually handling coronavirus patients. As for those who do not have equipment, we’ve said that we’ve provided PPEs for all the people out there. There’s a global shortage of PPEs, every country is struggling for masks, PPEs.” The Minister for Health said.
In other news, 204 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in the country, says the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
The confirmed cases and their respective states are; 80-Kano, 45-LagosL, 12-Gombe, 9-Bauchi, 9-Sokoto, 7-Borno, 7-Edo, 6-Rivers, 6-Ogun, 4-FCT, 4-Akwa Ibom, 4-Bayelsa, 3-Kaduna, 2-Oyo, 2-Delta, 2-Nasarawa, 1-Ondo, and 1-Kebbi.
The Centre for Disease Control, while making the disclosure via a Tweet, Thursday, said:
” as at 11:50pm 30th April- 1932 confirmed cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria, with 319 discharges and 58 recorded deaths.”
