As the Coronavirus pandemic keeps eating through the state, the Lagos State Government has retreated for mild coronavirus cases to be managed at home, pointing that only critical cases will go to isolation centers.
Professor Akin Abayomi , the state Commissioner for Health, stated this on Wednesday, May 20th 2020 during a discussion on Instagram on the effects of COVID-19 on the health care system.
Abayomi, who tweeted highlights of the conversation, #ShopTalkHealth, urged members of the public to confirm their coronavirus status if they felt ill.
He explained that government was making efforts to flatten the curve.
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“We have exceeded the containment phase now. We are at the active community transmission stage. We will be concentrating on people with severe cases and isolating them, while mild cases will be managed at home. Our attention is shifting to community based isolation,” the commissioner tweeted.
He noted that the government also planned to adopt birth control as a strategy to curb the spread of the virus.
Abayomi said the government had inaugurated two mother and child centres and planned to build more.
Recently, 17 Recoveries have been recorded in the state which is totaling to 649 patients discharged with 42 fatalities.
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