“We still have an excess testing capacity, we have three reference laboratories in Lagos, each of those facilities is testing up to 50 per day, so we have about 150 tests per day. We are increasing that capacity by the day, hopefully, we will be able to get to 200 and so on.”
According to him,the state has 81 cases with eight recoveries and no death. He said 66 cases are due for transmission within Lagos and 15 cases came from a vessel that was manoeuvring the coasts of Lagos doing oil and gas work.“Most of the patients are experiencing a mild to moderate degree of the illness, no patient requires ventilation at the moment.
“Lagos has 27 general hospitals and almost 300 health practitioners and a teaching hospital. We are not struggling at the moment, we have health professionals and volunteers.”
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