4,527 Lagos Coronavirus Patients Are Treating Themselves At Home – Prof. Akin Abayomi

The state Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi has come out to say that 4,527 persons infected with Covid-19 are currently undergoing home-based care in Lagos state.

He recently revealed this on Twitter, while adding that the total number of COVID19 cases discharged from COVID19 Lagos Care centres is 2,920.

According to him, 23,036 persons recovered from COVID19 in various communities, and the total number of cases currently under isolation is 140, therefore Lagosians should keep wearing their masks while abiding by the protocols of NCDC.

He added that Nigeria has so far tested 948,048 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was announced on Feb. 27, 2020.

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Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that can be mild, such as some cases of the common cold (among other possible causes, predominantly rhinoviruses), and others that can be lethal, such as SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. Symptoms in other species vary: in chickens, they cause an upper respiratory tract disease, while in cows and pigs they cause diarrhea. There are yet to be vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent or treat human coronavirus infections.

Coronaviruses constitute the subfamily Orthocoronavirinae, in the family Coronaviridae, order Nidovirales, and realm Riboviria. They are enveloped viruses with a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome and a nucleocapsid of helical symmetry. The genome size of coronaviruses ranges from approximately 27 to 34 kilobases, the largest among known RNA viruses. The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”, which refers to the characteristic appearance reminiscent of a crown or a solar corona around the virions (virus particles) when viewed under two-dimensional transmission electron microscopy, due to the surface covering in club-shaped protein spikes.

Human coronaviruses were first discovered in the late 1960s. The earliest ones discovered were an infectious bronchitis virus in chickens and two in human patients with the common cold (later named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43). Other members of this family have since been identified, including SARS-CoV in 2003, HCoV NL63 in 2004, HKU1 in 2005, MERS-CoV in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 (formerly known as 2019-nCoV) in 2019. Most of these have involved serious respiratory tract infections.