The federal government has said health challenges like
tuberculosis, hypertension, diabetes, HIV, kidney disease and cancer are
responsible for 70 per cent of COVID-19 deaths in Nigeria.
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, stated this
during the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on
Thursday.
Ehanire also noted that 70 per cent of deaths were males,
while the remaining 30% are females.
Majority of positive cases recorded so far are between 29
and 49.
He said: “The core morbidity of the fatalities we have had
to COVID-19, 70% of them have hypertension, or diabetes, and the rest were
kidney disease, HIV, cancer, tuberculosis and other sundry challenge.
“A finding from the analysis of the death patterns shows 70%
to 30% for male and female around that ratio and about 70% fatalities were
persons who are 60 years old while majority of positives were between the ages
of 29 and 49; those are the most active ages in life.”
As at Thursday night, Nigeria had recorded 6,677 confirmed
cases of Coronavirus.
A total of 1,840 patients have been recorded, while 200 have
died.
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