By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
Edo State has recorded 30 new cases and two more deaths from coronavirus (COVID-19), with 632 active cases.
The Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of Health, Dr. Osamwonyi Irowa, who disclosed in Benin City, the state capital, further said that the state government had intensified measures to curtail the spread of the second wave of the pandemic.
He said that that with the new fatality figure, the state has now recorded a total of 144 deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic.
His words: “Edo State has in the last 24 hours recorded 30 new confirmed cases, two more deaths and 13 recoveries from COVID-19.
“Twenty-four of the new cases were reported from the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), while the remaining six were confirmed at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH).”
He disclosed that the state also has 632 active cases who are currently receiving treatments from various treatment and isolation centres within the state.
He added that Edo has, since December 1, 2020, when the state started tracking the second wave of the pandemic, collected 10,525 samples and recorded 1,166 confirmed cases, 507 recoveries and 32 deaths.
“Guidelines and protocols are being reviewed by a team of experts to improve treatment outcome, reduce healthcare workers’ infection and the incidence of deaths from COVID-19 in the state. Home-based care is now decentralized across the 18 LGAs using the PHC system of care through the activities of the health officers,” he said.