The visit came on the heels of the discovery of a coronavirus patient in the state on Tuesday
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Abayomi during a media briefing on COVID-19 update on Wednesday in Lagos, said the two men were identified within 24 hours of going public with their names and had contacted the ministry
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has disclosed that the second confirmed case of COVID-19 was a Nigerian and staff of Lafarge Cement in Ewekoro, Ogun State.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has asked two passengers who had close contact with the index case of coronavirus in Nigeria during his flight to Nigeria to submit themselves to the authorities.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the three travellers from France, England and China suspected of having COVID-19 have tested negative.
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed this on Tuesday
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has visited Infectious Disease Centre in Yaba, Lagos for an on the spot assessment of the facility.
The Lagos State Government has debunked the news making the round that the index case of Coronavirus disease isolated at the Lagos Mainland Hospital tried to escape.
The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known in a statement in the early hours of Thursday
The Lagos State Government says it has placed the 63 people who had direct contact with the index Lassa fever case under surveillance.
The State government in a public advisory issued on Sunday through the State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, noted that unsupervised self-quarantine for travelers is the first step in containing coronavirus in the State.
Prof. Akin Abayomi, the state’s Commissioner for Health, made this known on Wednesday in Lagos at a media briefing highlighting the state’s preparedness to prevent or contain the spread of Coronavirus to the country.
The State Government through a press statement by the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said Coronavirus is a large family of viruses that causes illness ranging from common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
No fewer than 24 pharmacies, patent medicine shops and unlicensed premises at Abule Egba, Alagbado, Kola, Meiran, Ekoro and Oko-Oba in Ifako Ijaiye and Alimosho Local Government Areas of Lagos were sealed last Wednesday by the Lagos State Taskforce on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods for offences bordering on illegal operation and operating beyond scope of practice.
The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who stated this earlier on in the week during the biosecurity update meeting on the situation report of Monkey Pox disease in the State, urged residents to observe the highest possible standards of personal and environmental hygiene, especially through regular washing of hands with soap and running water and attention to environmental exposure.
The State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this at the weekend, said the surgical intervention, tagged: “100 in 100,” will start with screening and selection of patients for the surgical intervention.
The Lagos State Government has promised to take full responsibility of the medical bills of victims of the motor accident involving a fully loaded cement truck and a passenger bus, which occurred in the early hours of Monday at Asolo, along Lagos-Ikorodu Road.