Department of Paediatrics, University of Lagos College of Medicine, Lagos, Nigeria.
Department of Paediatrics, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Surulere, Nigeria.
BMJ Paediatr Open. 2021 Apr 26;5(1):e001029. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001029. eCollection 2021.
We assessed the effect of COVID-19 lockdown on deliveries and neonatal admissions according to gestation in Lagos, Nigeria. During lockdown (April-June 2020), there was a marked fall of about 50% in in-hospital deliveries and admissions to the neonatal wards for both in and outborn infants compared with prelockdown (January-March 2020) and a comparison period (April-June 2019). However, the proportion of preterm infants was broadly similar in each period. Lockdown markedly reduced hospital deliveries and healthcare-seeking for sick newborns but did not influence the overall proportion of preterm births among in-house deliveries and outborn neonatal admissions.
我们评估了 COVID-19 封锁对尼日利亚拉各斯的分娩和新生儿入院的影响,按妊娠时间进行评估。在封锁期间(2020 年 4 月至 6 月),与封锁前(2020 年 1 月至 3 月)和比较期(2019 年 4 月至 6 月)相比,医院分娩和新生儿病房收治的本地和外来出生婴儿明显下降了约 50%。然而,每个时期早产儿的比例大致相似。封锁显著减少了医院分娩和对患病新生儿的医疗寻求,但并没有影响到住院分娩和外来新生儿入院中早产儿的总体比例。