COVID-19 Not Yet Over, Lagos Health Commissioner Tells Residents

Lagos state commissioner for health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has appealed to residents of the state and neighbouring state that “COVID-19 is not yet over”.

The Lagos commissioner who stated this on his social media page advised the greeting should be adhered to as COVID-19 was a contact contagion.

“We have quite a long way to go and we do not know how many more waves of infections ahead.

“It is therefore important to continue to adhere to non-pharmaceutical interventions and build indigenous capacity to be less vulnerable, but be more resilient to deal with shocks,” he said.

He said that isolation facilities were filled up and being overstretched necessitating the creation of more spaces to accommodate patients.

Professor Abayomi while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for July 30 and July 31 said there was an increase in the state’s COVID-19 related mortality to 384.

According to him, 4,437 tests were conducted on the reported dates, out of which 519 new COVID-19 infections were confirmed.

“The new infections increased the state’s total COVID-19 infections to 63,872,” Abayomi said.

Abayomi said that there are currently 2,783 active COVID-19 cases in communities being managed under the state’s Home Based Care.

Abayomi disclosed that the number of patients receiving treatment at the state’s isolation facilities had increased from 128 to 136 persons.

He further said that 56,127 of the infected people had recovered in communities, while 4,399 had recovered in the state’s COVID-19 isolation centres.

The commissioner added that the total number of COVID-19 tests conducted in the state since the inception of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic stood at 607,803.

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