Top Categories

Breaking News

Business & Economy

Cartoon

Commentaries

Features

Interviews

Local News

Most Read

Alleged fraud: EFCC arrests, detains Yahaya Bello 

Soldiers killed as Boko Haram atacks Military Camp In Borno

Reps move to revoke Living Faith Church’s airstrip licence

Sickle Cell Foundation, LUTH record 1st successful bone marrow transplant

B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G: Starlink suspends price hike, victory for Nigerian consumers

Three women arrested as Police in Cyprus Dismantle Nigerian Prostitution Ring In Cyprus

COVID-19: LASG says 1,683 active cases in communities are yet to turn up for admission in care centres

communities

COVID-19: LASG says 1,683 active cases in communities are yet to turn up for admission in care centres

By Admin
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi says 1,683 active COVID-19 cases in communities are yet to turn up for admission in COVID-19 Lagos care centres.
Abayomi disclosed this in a series of tweets on Friday, while giving an update on the COVID-19 for Aug. 5.
He noted that 137 new COVID-19 infections were confirmed in the state  out of a total of 930 COVID-19 tests conducted on the reported date.
“The new cases bring the total number of confirmed infections in Lagos to 15,580,” he said.
He said, 66,431 COVID-19 tests had been conducted since the inception of the pandemic.

According to him, 2,238 of the confirmed cases have fully recovered and since been discharged.

communities
Commissioner for Health Lagos State, Prof. Akin Abayomi

Abayomi added that 11,381 of the confirmed cases monitored in communities by the state’s COVID-19 response team have either fully recovered or positively responding to treatments.

“83 of the cases are currently under isolation in public and private care centres.

He, however, noted that one COVID-19 related death was recorded on the reported day, increasing the state’s COVID-19 related mortality to 195.