Aug. 10, 2021

Lagos State government says the State has recorded 42 COVID-19 related deaths between Aug. 1 and Aug. 8.

Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health disclosed this in a Facebook post while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for Aug. 8.

He noted that the eight deaths recorded on Monday increased the state’s fatalities to 42.

The Commissioner said that 2,368 tests were conducted on the reported date, out of which 219 new COVID-19 infections were confirmed.

“The new infections increased the state’s total COVID-19 infections to 66,241,” he said.

According to the commissioner, 3,897 persons with active COVID-19 cases are currently receiving treatment under the state’s home-based care.

He said 57, 282 out of the infected persons had so far recovered in various communities, while 4,481 recovered in the state’s COVID-19 isolation centres.

Abayomi disclosed that currently, there were 152 patients receiving treatment 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 outbreak of the pandemic stood at 628, 120.