Lagos finally exits 5th COVID-19 wave
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According to the commissioner, though COVID-19 infection is still present, many residents have developed immunity against the disease from natural infection or vaccination.
By Oluwafunke Ishola
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said that the state had exited the fifth COVID-19 wave, noting that severe complications from the disease had ended.
Abayomi said this during the launch of a lithotripsy machine donated to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Lagos on Friday.
NCDC had on July 8, in a public health advisory, warned of the onset of the fifth COVID-19 wave arising from increasing daily infections.
According to the commissioner, though COVID-19 infection is still present, many residents have developed immunity against the disease from natural infection or vaccination.
“Now that we’ve weaned ourselves out of the fifth COVID-19 wave, it’s still rumbling around, but most residents have enough immunity either from natural infection or vaccination.”
“We are not seeing the severe complications of COVID-19 infection anymore,” Abayomi said.
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