Urges residents to be alert
Lagos State Government has advised residents to be on guard, amid a possible third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It urged residents to be alert in view of the “steep” rise in the number of positive cases of the virus.
In a statement yesterday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said Lagos State had as of July 7, recorded 60,202 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 357 registered deaths.
He said: “From the beginning of July, we started to experience a steep increase in the number of daily confirmed cases, with the test positivity rate going from 1.1 per cent at the end of June to its current rate of 6.6 per cent as at July 8.”
Sanwo-Olu, who noted that only one per cent of the state’s population of more than 20 million had been vaccinated, said managing the latest wave was the responsibility of “all of us”.
He specifically reminded churches, mosques and groups to adhere strictly to the existing COVID -19 protocols, including not having more than 50 persons in an enclosed place.
The governor also warned that in-bound travellers that fail to comply with isolation protocols risked prosecution.
