The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on Coronavirus, Sani Aliyu, on Wednesday, noted that patients who need ventilators might not survive the virus.
Aliyu revealed this on Wednesday while speaking during the daily update on COVID-19.
He called on Nigerians to take necessary precautions, especially the elderly and others at high risk of contracting Coronavirus
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He said, “There is 20%-30% survival coming off a ventilator. So that is why it is important in the first instance not to even get coronavirus because if one gets COVID and happens to fall within the risk groups in terms of the elderly or diabetic or cardiovascular disease, and you end up on a ventilator, you have a greater chance of not coming off the ventilator even in the best health system.”
“And that is why people have been dying in Europe, in the United States etc. Most of the deaths have been linked to ventilators”.
United States President, Donald Trump has promised to donate ventilators to Nigeria in order to help the country fight the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this during the ongoing presidential taskforce on COVID-19.
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According to Mohammed, President Muhammadu Buhari during a telephone conversation with Trump, at the request of the American president, briefed him on Nigeria’s response to the disease.
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