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Lagos State May Face Fourth Wave Of The COVID-19 Pandemic In December – Health Commissioner Warns

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The Lagos State Commissioner for Effectively being, Prof Akin Abayomi, has raised the alarm that the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic would possibly seemingly happen throughout the state in December.

 

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, December 20, Abayomi talked about passengers coming into the nation from high-burden worldwide areas might enhance the unfold of the virus.

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“Many Nigerians staying abroad shall be returning residence to have an excellent time Christmas with their households. Most of these people shall be coming from worldwide areas the place there is a heavy burden of COVID-19 and the place everyone knows the virus is altering and mutating.

The potential drivers of a fourth wave in Lagos and Nigeria are passengers arriving, significantly from heavy-burdened worldwide areas in Europe and america into Lagos. About 86 per cent of all inbound flights into Nigeria come by way of Lagos.

It is solely inevitable that if passengers are travelling in big numbers from these worldwide areas the place they’re about to experience the fourth and fifth wave, we should always all the time depend on some actions in Lagos due to these actions. On the current worth of the response all through the nation, we’re seemingly going to return throughout a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2021.”he talked about

 

The commissioner lamented the low vaccination worth in Nigeria, saying many worldwide areas had vaccinated larger than 50 p.c of their eligible populations.

 

“The other draw back we have got in Lagos and Nigeria is that our worth of vaccination has been pretty low; it is barely under three per cent, whereas our aim must be over 40 per cent. Many worldwide areas across the globe have exceeded 50 per cent vaccination of the eligible inhabitants.

On the current worth of the response all through the nation, we’re seemingly going to return throughout a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2021. Lagos State has solely vaccinated about 2.6 per cent of its inhabitants, leaving it inclined to a fourth wave.”he talked about

 

 

fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic