Buhari's Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari arrives Lagos in air ambulance
Wale Odunsi
Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, has arrived Lagos.
He was transferred from Abuja to Lagos to continue his treatment for coronavirus.
Kyari was conveyed to Nigeria's commercial hub in an air ambulance, Daily Trust reports.
The top government official tested positive after he returned from Germany.
Nigeria currently has over 110 cases.
Meanwhile, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it is looking for
6,000 people who have had close contact with persons infected with coronavirus.
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The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday, ordered doctors to consider malaria-like symptoms as COVID-19 infection unless proven.
Sanwo-Olu urged residents with such symptoms to visit any public health facility or laboratory get tested for free.
He spoke at a press briefing on COVID-19 at the Lagos House, Ikeja.
Sanwo-Olu expressed concern about the surging cases of the pandemic.
He confirmed the reopening of the INDO Isolation Centre and Gbagada Isolation Center.
Sanwo-Olu said over the last few weeks, the demand for oxygen has risen from 70 six-litre cylinders per day to 350 six-litre cylinders at the Yaba Mainland Hospital.
This will more than double to 750 six-cylinders before the end of January 2021, the governor projected.
"ln addition to providing oxygen at our isolation centres, the government has decentralized the availability of oxygen through the provision of 10 oxygen and sampling kiosks. Oxygen therapy and other related services will be provided to patients that require them", he said.
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Kwara Chapter, has lost a member, Dr Martin Ighodalo of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Ilorin, to coronavirus.
Prof. Issa Baba, NMA Chairman, Kwara Chapter, made this known e in a statement on Tuesday in Ilorin.
"We want to regrettably announce the passing unto glory of Martin Ighodalo who was a classmate in the Medical School.
"He died due to complications of coronavirus infection.
"We pray that God Almighty repose his soul and give the family the fortitude to bear the loss," he said.
NAN reports that the deceased obtained a Bachelor of Science from the University of Ibadan in 1985 and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from University of Ilorin in 1994.