Health
Nigeria Far From Achieving 2025 Tuberculosis Target –WHO
The World Health Organization, WHO, says it is worrisome that Nigeria may not achieve the 2025 national tuberculosis target. The organization says this is because the country has detected only 27% of the estimated TB cases.
WHO’s representative in Nigeria, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombos, revealed this at the TB day ministerial briefing and official launch of the unified national TB campaign and ACSM guideline, in Abuja.
Mulombos says Nigeria has a poor budgetary funding of TB which stands as a major threat to Nigeria’s achievement of its targets.
He says one undetected infectious TB case is able to contaminate up to 15 persons per year.
Two persons have been reported killed in Oyo State after been infected with the deadly COVID-19 Delta variant.
The state incident manager and coordinator of the emergency operations centre, Dr. Olabode Ladipo said one other person is in state isolation facility and receiving medical attention.
Oyo state government announced on Sunday it had found the Delta strain of the coronavirus which entered into the state through movement of people travelling around the world.
W.H.O. said this variant first detected in India and now in at least 90 countries, has high transmission, and increase severity of infection.
Authorities in the state said they have begun contact tracing and urged the general public to take extra caution.
Oyo State task force on COVID-19 says the deadly delta variant has now been detected in Oyo. The state incident manager and coordinator of the emergency operations centre, Dr. Olabode Ladipo, notified the public in a statement on Sunday asking the general public to take extra caution. The delta strain has been associated with high transmission, increase severity of infection and outcomes.
Last week Thursday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had said on Thursday, the coronavirus delta variant first discovered in India has been confirmed in Nigeria, in a traveller, following the routine travel test made compulsory for all international travellers.
In a latest data released today Monday, NCDC says 12 new COVID-19 cases have been reported from 3 states- Akwa Ibom (6), Ogun (4), and Rivers 2 cases, bringing the total number of persons who have tested positive in the country to 168,552 and 2,124 deaths.
The variant, has already been detected in more than 90 countries, and is expected to spread to others.
Oyo COVID-19 task force has warned residents of the state to continue complying all advisories at curtailing the spread of the virus.
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