Lagos Government Declares End Of COVID-19 Fourth Wave

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Obiajulu Joel Nwolu

The fourth wave of COVID-19 is over in Lagos, the state government has said.

Commissioner for Health in the state, Prof Akin Abayomi, said that a consistent decrease in COVID-19 case positivity was an indication of the end of the fourth wave in the state.

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Abayomi in an update on his Twitter account said there was a reduction in positivity rates of COVID-19 infection from 29.3 per cent recorded on December 21, 2021, to 1.9 per cent on January  20, 2022.

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He put bed capacity utilisation at only two percent and fatality rate at 0.71 per cent.

But the commissioner asked Lagosians to get vaccinated and continue to adhere to non-pharmaceutical interventions to further reduce the spread of the virus.

Source: SaharaReporters

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