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How many ventilators are there in Nigeria?

While there has been no official data on the number of ventilators that are available in Nigeria, it is estimated there were 450 ventilators at the start of the pandemic. For a country with a population of about 200 million people, an extrapolation using the figure would mean that there were just about 2 ventilators per 1 million people in Nigeria.

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