AJOL Abstract: Background: As part of our contribution to the growing pool of knowledge on the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study describes the demographic features of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized at Infectious Disease Center (IDC), Olodo, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria Methodology: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study of COVID-19 patients whose data were collected during admission between April 27, 2020 and June 20, 2020 SARS-CoV-2 infection was diagnosed on nasopharyngeal specimen using a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) assay Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS Inc , USA) version 20 0Results: Among 131 patients, 58% were between age 18 and 35 years, 48 1% were employees of private establishments, and 64 1% were males High proportion (84 3%) of the patients spent less than 14 days on admission As at June 20, 2020, the overall COVID-19 mortality in the IDC was 0 0% Conclusion: This study concluded that COVID-19 was common among male Nigerians, those working in private establishments, and those aged 18-35 years Future researches on COVID-19 in Nigeria must put gender and age into consideration
Demographic attributes of COVID-19 patients in an Infectious Disease Center of Nigeria