He also revealed that only 39 per cent of travellers who arrived in the state last month, April, were able to be traced while 61 per cent were untraceable to date in the curtailment efforts against COVID-19 in the state.
He added that EKO TELEMED – a tech-driven platform through which the state government managed the spread of the virus – yielded efficient results in breaking the cycle of community infection. “Of the 123 passengers of interest tracked between April 13 and 27, 110 were called by EKOTELEMED with only 39 per cent reached and tracked; 66 per cent had Lagos as their final destination while about 28 per cent filled in no address in Nigeria or filled in a foreign address,” Abayomi stated.
“Currently, countries like India, Brazil, Argentina, Iraq, Qatar, Peru and Uruguay are being ravaged by a vicious third or fourth wave following a less active and insignificant second or third wave. Such measures, he said, include aggressive testing, including mutant PCR testing to identify the particular virus strain; deployment of technology to track and monitor inbound travellers; enforcing non-pharmaceutical interventions; increase in oxygen supply and vaccination.
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