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EXCLUSIVE: Lagos University Teaching Hospital Sends Away Man Who Tested Positive For Coronavirus Over Lack Of Bed Space

Benson, who had hoped to be quarantined and treated at LUTH after being tested at the government-owned hospital on March 21, was asked to go back home over lack of bed space to admit him at the facility.
Benson, who had hoped to be quarantined and treated at LUTH after being tested at the government-owned hospital on March 21, was asked to go back home over lack of bed space to admit him at the facility.

SaharaReporters gathered that since the refusal of LUTH to admit Benson, he had returned home and continued his normal life.

“He moved to and from LUTH through public transportation.

“He has been mingling freely with people,” a friend to the young man told SaharaReporters on Thursday.

When contacted by SaharaReporters on Thursday night after his mobile number was supplied to one of our correspondents, Benson indeed confirmed that he tested positive for the virus and was not admitted to LUTH for treatment by medical personnel.

He disclosed that he went for the test after coming in contact with the two UK returnees at a dinner party in Lagos last week.

When asked if money was demanded from him before the test was conducted, Benson refused to open up, instead saying that he does not want unnecessary attention.

While chatting with one of our correspondents on social networking platform, Whatsapp, Benson, who expressed fear of being stigmatised should his story be published, quickly deleted his display photo on his profile.

He was standing with an unidentified person in the photo where both men were wearing tags over their necks.

He said, “I am at home on self-isolation now.

"I had the test at LUTH even though the queue was too long.

“Some of the medical staff I spoke with later advised me to go home and self-isolate.

"They said I should get back to them after 14 days or that in seven days they might call to check my progress.

"I was infected at a dinner party organised for the two men who returned to Nigeria from the UK.

"I went for the test on March 21."

When asked if he had attempted to contact the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control to notify them of his situation and probably seek help, Benson said, “I have called the NCDC lines several times but they are not picking up the call.”

To further give credence to Benson's situation, the NCDC on Thursday night announced 12 new confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Lagos out of the total 14 detected in the country.

Nigeria now has 65 confirmed cases of the virus and one recorded death.

Testing kits for the virus are being used for politicians and their families while ordinary Nigerians with symptoms of the pandemic are being left to their fates.

Till date, less than 200 persons have been tested for the virus in Nigeria despite Lagos alone having a population of over 20 million persons.

An official of the Nigerian Medical Association told SaharaReporters that the number of confirmed cases declared by NCDC was far below the real figure, adding that there were already hundreds of citizens infected with Coronavirus walking and freely mixing up with others thus increasing the risk of a further spread.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK MAR 26, 2020

See link here http://saharareporters.com/2020/03/26/exclusive-lagos-university-teaching-hospital-sends-away-man-who-tested-positive

Wahala dey ooo

EXCLUSIVE: Lagos University Teaching Hospital Sends Away Man Who Tested Positive For Coronavirus Over Lack Of Bed Space

Benson, who had hoped to be quarantined and treated at LUTH after being tested at the government-owned hospital on March 21, was asked to go back home over lack of bed space to admit him at the facility.
Benson, who had hoped to be quarantined and treated at LUTH after being tested at the government-owned hospital on March 21, was asked to go back home over lack of bed space to admit him at the facility.

SaharaReporters gathered that since the refusal of LUTH to admit Benson, he had returned home and continued his normal life.

“He moved to and from LUTH through public transportation.

“He has been mingling freely with people,” a friend to the young man told SaharaReporters on Thursday.

When contacted by SaharaReporters on Thursday night after his mobile number was supplied to one of our correspondents, Benson indeed confirmed that he tested positive for the virus and was not admitted to LUTH for treatment by medical personnel.

He disclosed that he went for the test after coming in contact with the two UK returnees at a dinner party in Lagos last week.

When asked if money was demanded from him before the test was conducted, Benson refused to open up, instead saying that he does not want unnecessary attention.

While chatting with one of our correspondents on social networking platform, Whatsapp, Benson, who expressed fear of being stigmatised should his story be published, quickly deleted his display photo on his profile.

He was standing with an unidentified person in the photo where both men were wearing tags over their necks.

He said, “I am at home on self-isolation now.

"I had the test at LUTH even though the queue was too long.

“Some of the medical staff I spoke with later advised me to go home and self-isolate.

"They said I should get back to them after 14 days or that in seven days they might call to check my progress.

"I was infected at a dinner party organised for the two men who returned to Nigeria from the UK.

"I went for the test on March 21."

When asked if he had attempted to contact the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control to notify them of his situation and probably seek help, Benson said, “I have called the NCDC lines several times but they are not picking up the call.”

To further give credence to Benson's situation, the NCDC on Thursday night announced 12 new confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Lagos out of the total 14 detected in the country.

Nigeria now has 65 confirmed cases of the virus and one recorded death.

Testing kits for the virus are being used for politicians and their families while ordinary Nigerians with symptoms of the pandemic are being left to their fates.

Till date, less than 200 persons have been tested for the virus in Nigeria despite Lagos alone having a population of over 20 million persons.

An official of the Nigerian Medical Association told SaharaReporters that the number of confirmed cases declared by NCDC was far below the real figure, adding that there were already hundreds of citizens infected with Coronavirus walking and freely mixing up with others thus increasing the risk of a further spread.

BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK MAR 26, 2020

See link here http://saharareporters.com/2020/03/26/exclusive-lagos-university-teaching-hospital-sends-away-man-who-tested-positive

Bigii:
Mumu governor. Uptil now, no single isolation centre in BENUE state

Be constructive pls. Are you in Benue?

Lanre4uonly:
Coronavirus does not have any regard for anybody irrespective of your class in the society.
Therefore, the fear of coronavirus is the beginning of wisdom.

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According to the Punch Newspaper, three of Abba Kyari's aides have been tested positive for Coronavirus.
It could be recalled that the Chief of Staff to Nigeria's President Muhamadu Buhari has been tested positive for the virus and is already receiving treatment in the hospital

Susu888:
Nigga knows he bleeped up in this life and cannot meet his lors with the blood of innocents murdered by the militia's he's been funding.

Who is this one and what is he saying?

alezzy13:
Likely fake. There no indication that him at all.

That means you don't know him. In Benue State the picture has already gone viral

Governor Samuel Ortom has changed from his usual apron and native cap to a new outfit for fear of Coronavirus pandemic. Attached is the picture of the Governor in his new outfit.

Lionel Messi vs Cristiano Ronaldo, the never-ending debate.

In the last 10 years, every single football fan will have seen hundreds - if not thousands - of varying opinions on the two greatest footballers of the modern era.

While the opinions of 'fanboys' across social media rarely garner interest, it is always intriguing to see the judgement of a footballing legend on the matter.
Source: Givemesports.com

Brazilian icon Pele is the latest to offer his view on the Messi vs Ronaldo debate and the three-time World Cup winner has decided to side with the latter.

Pele believes Ronaldo is 'more consistent' than his eternal enemy, before stating that Messi 'is not a striker'.

"Today the best player in the world is Cristiano Ronaldo," Pele told YouTube channel Pilhado.

"I think he's the best, because he's more consistent, but you can't forget about Messi, of course, but he's not a striker."

That's the thing with Messi, he's just never been able to find that consistency...

Messi is possibly the most consistent player of all-time. In 856 games for club and country, the Argentine has 697 goals and 289 assists to his name, averaging 1.15 goal involvements per game.

As for Ronaldo, he has 725 goals and 220 assists in his 1000 games, an average of 0.945 goal involvements per game.

There's no reason to not have the opinion that Ronaldo is better than Messi, but to label him as more consistent is just statistically incorrect.

But when asked who is the greatest player of all-time, guess who Pele said? You got it, himself - and in the third person!

He added: "It is a question that is difficult to answer. We cannot forget about Zico, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo.

"And in Europe, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff. Now, it's not my fault, but I think Pele was better than them all."
Source:givemesports.com

The executive Governor of Benue State Dr. Samuel Ortom has been in the forefront of the campaign to curb the spread of Coronavirus in the State. The Governor was seen dressed in an overall leather-like clothing to protect himself against the virus.

favour32:

Nai be say any educated nor dey lie

I'm not saying can't lie, I said he ought to know his mother's actual age. I believe therefore that her age is not estimated as some people are claiming.

seunlayi:
It is getting louder

My brother, it's really getting scary

Source: SaharaReporters

The decision to Shutdown Schools at all levels was announced by the Commissioner for Education, Professor Dennis Tyavyar.

Godmademan:
These old people don't know their age o. If you pressure them they'd just give you any rubbish number in their brain

Not quite true. Some use events to calculate their ages. Indeed, some of them were named after these events. Don't just sit and assume that our parents were ignorant of times and happenings around them, some supposedly illiterate ones are far wiser than you.

donveekings:

Man, stop! You talk like a Jambite. Grow up. Everything is not ethnicity!

Thank you man. Some people seem to be toddlers. One ought not to engage them.

blackboy:
They get sunlight sun shine very well Sir. The issue is the weather is cold or cool. It's the season. Heat comes in summer in most.

Miracles can change a lot of things

ronyman:
Na dis BABA be 44 yrs... How Jibrin no go be 30. Mtcheeew!

maoolakanm:
SHE WAS MUCH YOUNGER THAN 21 PROBABLY 18.

We should be around 21

Tonytonero1:

I do think his mum's age is incorrect. the woman appeared to be in her early 80 in those pictures.

But she looks 21 in the first picture.

Coronavirus: Don’t be afraid, God has solution - Mbaka

Father Mbaka has told Nigerians what to do about coronavirus . Mbaka on Wednesday, March 18, assured Nigerians that God Almighty has a cure for the disease .

The Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN) minister said that God has supremacy over the disease even if man has no cure for at the moment Reverend Father Mbaka of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN) has given his latest reaction to the dreaded disease called coronavirus. During a prayer session held on Wednesday, March 18, in Enugu, Mbaka called on Nigerians not to respond to the global pandemic with panic, adding that fear itself has torment, Vanguard reports.

The famous Christian cleric assured Nigerians that despite the fact no cure has been found for the virus, God has a solution if only people will call on him in prayer, since, according to him, the maker of the universe has supremacy over all human affairs and problems.

He said that if only God's children will exercise faith in him, all things will be possible to them. The prophet state: “Under the priestly anointing, I release healing to the entire world, particularly where the disease is ravaging so much, let there be healing, let there be sunray always, which is one of the antidotes to the disease. God release drug that will cure it in Jesus name."

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that as coronavirus spread across the world and the death toll climbed up almost every day, health experts had been up and doing, working to develop a vaccine to combat the deadly virus.

Vanguard Newspaper

Jaapu:


This is the most foolish post I have read today. Mumu and unintelligent he-goat.

Can't dignify you please.

RichBoy247:


You are showing early symptoms to psychiatric disorders and mental imbalance.

SMH

ursullalinda:
Hahaha.......they lie about everything.......seems he reduced his age with 20years hahaha.......Abeg leave politicians and their football age.

Lol

The Federal Government has banned all government officials from embarking on foreign trips as the world continues to battle the COVID-19 disease.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, made the declaration on Tuesday after the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Task Force Team on the COVID-19.

He also urged Nigerians coming in from outside the country to self-isolate themselves for 14 days to ensure they do not pose a threat to their immediate environment
-Channelstv

BREAKING: FG suspends National Sport Festival



The Federal Government has approved the postponement of the National Sports Festival Edo 2020.

The postponement is attributable to the coronavirus outbreak for which Nigeria has recorded three confirmed cases.

The Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare, in a series of tweets on Tuesday, said the postponement was to safeguard the spread of the virus in the country.

Details shortly…
The Nations Newspaper

Tmb78:
OK,when another person on another thread mentions Igbo in a thread that has nothing to do with the igbos,I hope you will be this open minded sha.

Sounds like the usual tribal e-warriors

Tmb78:
so the last statement of the person I quoted, what was that about?
I guess you are saying this cos he echoed your thoughts, no be so?

He only mentioned your tribe, same way he mentioned 78. Don't always read with a biased mind

Tmb78:
Yoruba this,Yoruba that,kai.
Wetin concern Yoruba matter now?

You are the one amplifying the ethnic card here