Lagos Mainland, Eti-Osa LGs have recorded highest COVID-19 cases – Commissioner

The Lagos state government says Lagos Mainland, Eti-Osa LGs have recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections in the State.

Professor Akin Abayomi, the Commissioner for Health in the state disclosed this on Sunday during a briefing on the outbreak of the virus in Lagos.

“Looking at the local government distribution of cases, you can see that the majority of cases are in the Lagos mainland (LGA), followed by Eti-Osa (LGA). Then runs closely behind is Ikeja, and we are beginning to see a bit of activity in Alimosho (LGA),” the commissioner said.

According to him, it appears that there are one or two clusters of infections in Alimosho LGA and there are cases that come into the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba”.

“Of note, there are three local governments where we have not identified any case of COVID-19 yet and those are Ajeromi, Epe and Ojo,” Professor Abayomi added.

He noted that the state now has an accumulated number of 306 confirmed cases, noting that 93 of the cases have fully recovered and discharged while 194 cases were active across the isolation facilities in the state.

“Unfortunately, there are 14 fatalities as of today (Sunday).

“The age distribution and gender; again, we are seeing most of our cases between the age of 30 and 50 and that probably represents why we have a good outcome with our patients.”

The commissioner also confirmed that the government has begun to take the test to various communities by decentralising the sampling centres in various local governments.

He added that the testing capacity of the state has increased to about 1,000 daily, while the turnaround time has improved to less than 24 hours.