The suspected cholera cases in Lagos has surged to 421, according to the Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi via an Instagram post on his official handle on Saturday.
He had posted,
“As of June 20, 2024, an additional four suspected cholera cases have been reported, as illustrated in the accompanying graph.”
Abayomi had revealed that the Emergency Operations Centre in collaboration with all relevant partners was actively occupied with contact tracing, community-based surveillance, setting up awareness campaigns, sample testing, and ensuring that confirmed cholera cases receive proper medical treatment.
Recall that on Friday, the commissioner confirmed 35 cholera cases out of the 417 suspected cases and 24 deaths across 20 Local Government Areas in the state.
In Nigeria, cholera is a seasonal and endemic that occurs annually especially during the rainy season and more frequently in areas with poor sanitation.
Meanwhile, the WHO had announced on Thursday that there was a spike in cholera, in several regions of the world, with about 195,000 cases and over 1,900 deaths reported in 24 countries since the onset of 2024.
As at the time of filing this report, there are no reported cases of cholera in the Western Region, according to WHO’s bulletin released on Wednesday.
The organisation had also revealed that it had exhausted its global supply of Oral Cholera Vaccines by March but it revealed it was able to exceed “the emergency target of five million doses in early June for the first time in 2024.”
