Edo State has recorded five deaths and 113 recoveries from the resurgence of COVID-19 pandemic since December 1, 2020.
The state’s COVID-19 Incident Manager, Dr. Andrew Obi, disclosed this on Tuesday in Benin during a briefing of the state’s Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) chaired by Governor Godwin Obaseki.
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“Edo State has recorded 234 cases of coronavirus since December 1, when the state government started tracking the second wave of the pandemic.
“In that time, the state government has had a fatality rate of two percent and a case positivity rate of 23.1 percent.
“We have a total of 121 active cases, with 113 recoveries.
“Unfortunately, 5 persons have died from coronavirus since the second wave of the pandemic in the state,” he said.
He stressed the need for residents in the state to take the second wave of the pandemic seriously, even as he said the rate of positive cases since the start of the year were worrisome.
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