Category: Health

In a bid to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus, the Lagos State Government has stated that it will request religious leaders to stop Friday (Juma’at) and Sunday Church Services across the state. The Nation report that the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, stated this on Wednesday at a briefing. He said the religious leaders will be advised to shut down services in the interest of the public. He said this a few hours after Lagos recorded its seventh coronavirus case. “We are all aware that…

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Lagos has recorded a new case of the Coronavirus disease, popularly known as COVID-19, bringing the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to three. According to the State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, the third confirmed case is a 30-year old Nigerian who returned from the United Kingdom on 13th of March via British Airways flight BA 075, having spent 10 days in the United Kingdom and had been on self-isolation before developing fever and high cough. Abayomi stated that the patient had complied strictly with isolation principles which…

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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has called on Community, Religious and traditional leaders as well as Unions, Associations and Educationists to cooperate with the State Government in spreading basic information to curb coronavirus among their community members and adherents. Speaking earlier today at the stakeholders’ forum on the Management and Control of COVID-19, organised to sensitise Lagosians, the Governor noted that the event was convened to save the State the trauma of managing further spread of the Coronavirus. Sanwo-Olu, represented by his deputy, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, further…

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Two more foreign nationals suspected to be carrying the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) from a high-risk country in Asia have tested negative in Lagos State, the Chief Incident Commander, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said on Monday. The Governor disclosed that series of medical examination at the State’s bio-security facility conducted on the two patients, who were brought from Ogun State over the weekend, did not show any sign of COVID-19 infection. Sanwo-Olu made this known during an advocacy meeting held at the Banquet Hall in State House, Alausa, with all 57 council…

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Chief Incident Commander for the counter measures against Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has again re-assured Nigerians that the State remained committed to every effort geared towards preventing the human-to-human transmission of the virus, following the index case reported last Friday. The Governor said both the State and Federal Government healthcare officials had been working round the clock with infectious disease control professionals from the international agencies to ensure the counter measures being deployed to contain the virus achieved the desired results. Sanwo-Olu spoke on Sunday…

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Our Reporter Lagos State Government has raised its level of response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) incident, following a reported case of a patient diagnosed with the infectious viral disease in the State in the early hours of Friday. This is coming, just as the Chief Incident Commander and the State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, allayed fears of residents on spread of the virus. The Governor also offered more information on how the patient was identified and efforts currently being made to prevent the spread of the virus. The patient, Sanwo-Olu said,…

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Our Reporter In a bid to prevent an outbreak of the fast spreading Novel Coronavirus, the Lagos State Government on Monday launched an Incident Command System. The health emergency structure is being set up to help with containment in the unlikely event of outbreaks of the virus in the State. Commissioner of Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi explained that the Novel Coronavirus is a new pathogen to the human race and as such, research is still ongoing on how to arrest it. According to him, no suspected or confirmed cases of…

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