The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said consistent decrease in COVID-19 case positivity indicated the end of the fourth wave in the state.
The state had on Dec. 7 announced the beginning of the fourth wave as the daily infection figure from the virus spiked.
But while speaking to Channels, Professor Akin Abayomi said the government was now focused on getting more people to take the Covid vaccines.
“We are now out of the fourth wave, we don’t know what will happen next,” he said. “But we want to be prepared and the State Governor has said that we need to hit certain targets this year, so we are going to go back to the drawing board, because there’s a little bit of vaccine hesitancy in Lagos.
“We really need to look at how to encourage Lagosians to accommodate taking these vaccines. We know that vaccines are effective in terms of reducing your vulnerability to severe illness from Covid. It doesn’t so much protect you from Covid but it protects you from getting extremely unwell or even dying and that’s exactly what we want in Lagos: we don’t want people to get sick and die. You can catch a cold or Covid, but we want you to recover.
“In this fourth wave, most people were managed at home, because the Omicron variant didn’t seem to affect the lungs as badly as the Delta variant.”
While giving the state’s COVID-19 update for Jan. 20 on his social media handles,Abayomi said that there was a reduction in positivity rates of COVID-19 infection from 29.3 per cent recorded on Dec. 21, to 1.9 per cent as of Jan 20.
