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The Nigeria government has said that the most people infected with the deadly coronavirus are those within the ages of 31 and 40.
This was made known by the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire on Friday, at the usual media briefing by the Presidential Task Force PTF on COVID-19 in Abuja.
Ehanire said that most deaths have occurred in older persons but stressed that the government has been doing a lot in the fight against the pandemic.
He said: “The high number of new cases is due to on-going community transmission and active case search. From our test statistics, the most affected age group among the positives is 31-40 years while the highest COVID-19 fatality rate is among the older generation above 50 years of age.
“We have now deployed COVID-19 starter packs to all tertiary institutions and Federal Medical Centers to complement what was earlier sent to each State. The starter packs consist of medical consumables and disposables, to ensure that our frontline healthcare workers are protected.”
The health minister also harped on the need to discourage inter-state movement in order to limit the spread of the disease and added that COVID-19 starter packs had been deployed to all tertiary health institutions and federal medical centres to complement what was earlier sent to states.
“The starter packs contains medical consumables and disposables to ensure that our front line healthcare workers are protected and also that there is synergy and collaboration between federal tertiary institutions and the host state health network,” he stated.
