The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, has said the State will run out of bed spaces at isolation centres, if COVID-19 cases keep increasing. Abayomi stated this while addressing a press briefing in Ikeja on Friday. Lagos currently has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria with 5,663. The state recorded its
“Therefore, we are projecting. If we keep getting 150, 200 positives everyday, in another two or three weeks, even though we’re opening new isolation centres all the time, in time, we’re going to run out of beds.
“And this has happened all over the world; it’s not just in Lagos or Nigeria. Every other country has reached the same tipping point where you now have to transition from managing patients in an isolation centre to managing patients who are not that unwell at home, and reserving the isolation centres for people who are feeling unwell and need to be monitored more closely by medical personnel,” Abayomi said.
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