At the #COVID19Lagos press briefing today, I explained the Changing profile of #COVID19 Disease & the #COVID192ndWave in Lagos.
Towards the end of 1st wave we experienced;
📍Changing pattern in Positivity rate
📍Isolation centre almost empty
📍Death rate dropped dramatically
Towards the end of 1st wave we experienced;
📍Changing pattern in Positivity rate
📍Isolation centre almost empty
📍Death rate dropped dramatically
At this point it was important to balance public health response and allowing the economy to reopen.
📍Schools were reopened
📍Religious hoses opened
📍Social gathering and entertainment resumed.
There was general laxity with the false sense that #COVID19 infection is down.
📍Schools were reopened
📍Religious hoses opened
📍Social gathering and entertainment resumed.
There was general laxity with the false sense that #COVID19 infection is down.
However by the begining of December, 2020 with the reopening of the economy and increase in testing capacity of between 1,500 to 3,000 we started witnessing increase in positivity.
One of the strategies adopted in response to the recent increase in #COVID19 infection is the provision of #COVID19 Permanent Sample Collection Triage and Oxygen Therapy Centre in 10 LGAs across Lagos to support patients with oxygen before they are transferred to care centres.
Meanwhile, Lagos residents will need to make lifestyle adjustments to live with #COVID19 by adhering to all non pharmaceutical interventions .
@followlasg will continue to deploy effective messaging and education and enforce all #COVID19 safety protocols.
@followlasg will continue to deploy effective messaging and education and enforce all #COVID19 safety protocols.
On the new #COVID19 strain.
A virus has ability to mutate but we are not sure whether the new strain is deadlier.
Infectivity is given R value, the higher the R the more people the virus can infect.
At times mutation can increase R value.
Our response must aim for R zero.
A virus has ability to mutate but we are not sure whether the new strain is deadlier.
Infectivity is given R value, the higher the R the more people the virus can infect.
At times mutation can increase R value.
Our response must aim for R zero.
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