Lagos Government Says COVID-19 Fourth Wave Is Over

The fourth wave of COVID-19 is over in Lagos State, and this is official.

The state Commissioner of Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, said yesterday that a consistent decrease in COVID-19 case positivity was an indication of the end of the fourth wave in the state.

Abayomi is an update on his Twitter account @ProfAkinolaAbayomi said there was a reduction in positivity rates of COVID-19 infection from 29.3 percent recorded on December 21, 2021, to 1.9 percent on January  20, 2022. 

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He put bed capacity utilization at only two percent and fatality rate at 0.71 percent.

But the commissioner asked Lagosians to get vaccinated and continue to adhere to non-pharmaceutical interventions to further reduce the spread of the virus.