The Lagos State Government has said mild coronavirus cases will be managed at home, adding that only critical cases will go to isolation centres.
The state Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, stated this on Wednesday during a discussion on Instagram on the effects of COVID-19 on the health care system.
Abayomi, who tweeted highlights of the conversation, #ShopTalkHealth, urged members of the public to confirm their coronavirus status if they felt ill.“We have exceeded the containment phase now. We are at the active community transmission stage. We will be concentrating on people with severe cases and isolating them, while mild cases will be managed at home. Our attention is shifting to community based isolation,” the commissioner tweeted.
He noted that the government also planned to adopt birth control as a strategy to curb the spread of the virus.In a related development, 17 COVID-19 patients have been released from the various isolation centres in Lagos State.“This brings to 649 the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases that have been successfully managed and discharged in Lagos,” he added.All rights reserved.
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