Residents Of Nigerian Capital Apprehensive Over Second Wave Of COVID-19

The residents of Abuja Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria’s capital city, are under panic following the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic in the country.

According to Dr. Mohammed Kawu, the acting secretary, Health and Human Services Secretariat of the FCT, while briefing newsmen, there is high panic in the Federal Capital Territory over the second wave of the pandemic, even as he said the apprehension is connected to the high number of new patients, whom he said are struggling for survival through oxygen at the University of Abuja Teaching hospital (UATH) Gwagwalada and Thisday Dome Isolation Center also in the FCT.

“There are palpable fears over the second wave of the pandemic, especially here in the FCT.

“This is understandable given that so many new cases are battling for breath and are under the oxygen at both the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital and the ThisDay Dome where they are quartered,” he said.
He,  however, warned that the second wave of COVID-19 has been confirmed by health experts to be more deadly than what was experienced before.

He confirmed that cases in the nation’s capital have hit 8,338 while efforts were on too gear to contain the spread. 

Kawu hinted that this figure was established after about 86,505 suspected cases were investigated and tested, warning that residents should not let down their guard regarding the pandemic.

He further explained that with a per capital testing rate of over 18,021 per million (1.8 percent population), FCT remains the only state to attain and surpass the COVID-19 testing target of one percent population set by the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 (PTF)