NCDC Contradicts Lagos on COVID-19 Death Figures

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Both the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Lagos State government have contradicted each other on the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the state.

The Lagos State commissioner for health, Prof Akin Abayomi, in a Twitter update this morning, gave the total COVID-19 deaths in the state, as of June 27, as 128.

Abayomi had tweeted, “As at 27th of June, 2020 numbers of #COVID19 related deaths in Lagos State have risen to 128.”

But, the NCDC on its website said 126 COVID-19 deaths have been recorded in Lagos State as of June 28 (yesterday).

Figures released by Abayomi, as well as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) however reveal that Lagos recorded approximately 50 percent rise in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases this month.

According to Abayomi, 4,891 out of the total of 10,042 confirmed cases in the state were recorded between June 2 and June 27.

Figures released by NCDC also show that an additional 118 cases were recorded in the state yesterday, taking the total to 10,144.

This current statistics therefore shows that out of the current total of 10,144 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Lagos State, 5,009 were recorded between the 2nd and 28th of this month.

The commissioner further disclosed that 1,533 patients have recovered and discharged from isolation centres across the state. That figure had also risen to 1,592 by yesterday night.

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