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Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n

The federal government has said health challenges like tuberculosis, hypertension, diabetes, HIV, kidney disease and cancer are responsible for 70 per cent of COVID-19 deaths in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, stated this during the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Ehanire also noted that 70 per cent of deaths were males, while the remaining 30% are females.<\/p>\n

Majority of positive cases recorded so far are between 29 and 49.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe core morbidity of the fatalities we have had to COVID-19, 70% of them have hypertension, or diabetes, and the rest were kidney disease, HIV, cancer, tuberculosis and other sundry challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cA finding from the analysis of the death patterns shows 70% to 30% for male and female around that ratio and about 70% fatalities were persons who are 60 years old while majority of positives were between the ages of 29 and 49; those are the most active ages in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

As at Thursday night, Nigeria had recorded 6,677 confirmed cases of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n

A total of 1,840 patients have been recorded, while 200 have died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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