Lagos Announces End Of Covid-19 Fourth Wave
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, has stated that the consistent reduction in COVID-19 case positivity indicated the end of the fourth wave in the state.
Abayomi said this through his verified Twitter account on Saturday, while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for January 2020.
It was reported that the state had on December 7, 2021, announced the start of the fourth wave as the daily infection rate from the virus surged.
Abayomi added that there was a reduction in positivity rates of COVID-19 infection from 29.3 percent recorded on December 21, to 1.9 per cent as of January 20.
According to him, bed capacity utilisation is currently on two percent, and fatality rate is on 0.71 per cent.
The commissioner further said that 46 new infections were confirmed on the reported date increasing the number of COVID-19 infections in the state to 98,284.
He noted that 1,023, 203 sample tests had been conducted since the pandemic began in the state.
The commissioner advised residents to get vaccinated and keep sticking to non-pharmaceutical interventions to further curb the spread of the virus.