The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has announced the State’s exit from the 5th wave of COVID-19, noting that severe complications from the disease have ended.
Abayomi announced this on Friday during the launch of a lithotripsy machine donated to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in a public health advisory on July 8, warned of the onset of the 5th wave of COVID-19 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.
– NAN