The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday announced a new case management guidelines for the treatment and discharge of COVID-19 pandemic patients.
According to him, symptomatic patients will now be discharged at least 10 days after symptom onset and at least three days without symptoms.
“For asymptomatic patients, they can be discharged 14 days after the first PCR positive test. “We no longer have to wait for a negative test to discharge, with the confidence that you can go home and you are no longer infective or putting family or friends at risk.
“If your symptoms lasts longer, we will wait while managing it,” Ihekweazu said. He said that physicians were hesitant about the new guidelines, assuring them that the new guidelines was effective.
The NCDC chief said the centre had also removed the use of antivirals and Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine from its treatment guidelines. He said the antivirals would now be used only on trials setting and casually, because its safety was uncertain.
In another news, a Chinese doctor whose skin turned dark brown while he fought the coronavirus has died in a Wuhan hospital, more than four months after he was first infected, according to reports.
Dr. Hu Weifeng, 42, went viral in April after photos were released showing his skin radically darkened as he was being treated for COVID-19, a condition put down to either liver damage or drugs he was prescribed.
He died early Tuesday, according to Global Times, almost 20 weeks after he was diagnosed on Jan. 18. The urologist fell sick while treating coronavirus patients at Wuhan Central Hospital the Chinese hospital where the pandemic was first identified.
He appeared to be recovering, but suffered cerebral hemorrhages on April 22 and May 21, the report said.
Hu is believed to be the sixth employee there to have died from COVID-19, Global Times said, including whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, who was allegedly silenced when he tried to alert the world to the new contagion.
Other medical whistleblowers at Wuhan Central Hospital, including emergency unit director Ai Fen have told Chinese media they were punished by authorities for speaking out, according to Agence France-Presse.
Another colleague who also turned a dark color Dr. Yi Fan, also 42, was discharged from hospital on May 6, Global Times said.
In another news, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday recorded 350 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country
The new cases per states are listed as follows:
Lagos-102 Ogun-34 FCT-29 Borno-26 Kaduna-23 Rivers-21 Ebonyi-17 Kwara -16 Katsina-14 Edo-10 Delta-10 Kano-10 Bauchi-10 Bayelsa-9 Imo-8 Plateau-4 Ondo-3 Nasarawa-2 Gombe-1 Oyo-1
The NCDC further revealed that 11516 patients have so far gotten down with the virus, with 3535 patients discharged and 323 deaths recorded.
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