Lagos State Commissioner for Health,Prof. Akin Abayomi has said that the Covid-19 cases in the state have increased to 47,871 with new infections on January 28.
Abayomi disclosed this through his Twitter account on Saturday while giving the state’s Covid-19 status for Jan.28.
Abayomi said that 2,186 tests were conducted on the said day, bringing to 293,414, the total number of Covid-19 tests conducted in the state since inception of the pandemic.
He stated that 3,387 Covid-19 patients have been successfully treated and discharged from the state’s care centres
According to him, ” total number of recovery in communites is 34,192, while the number cases currently under isolation stood at 233, with 9,856 active cases under home- based care.”
Abayomi further disclosed that three new Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Jan 28, bringing the number of covid fatalities to 301.
He said the bed occupancy in the state’s public and private Covid-19 care centres declined to 66 per cent from 75 per cent from Jan 25- Jan 28 adding that Covid-19 testing capacity continued to increase with daily testing ranging between 2,500 to 3,000 while volume of samples tested by private labs stood at 51 per cent.
