Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on
Thursday that more COVID-19 patients need oxygen in
Lagos.
Governor Sanwo-Olu disclosed this after closed doors with
President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
At the end of the meeting, the governor briefed State House
correspondents on his administration’s commitment to addressing the
second wave of COVID-19 and the increase in the number of cases of
coronavirus infection in Lagos State.
Sanwo-Olu said his government has built about 10 oxygen plants
and commissioned about four, and provided other facilities in a
public building to meet the respiratory requirements.
He said the second wave seems to be a bit more infectious than
the first one, considering the number of people who have tested
positive for COVID-19 and the fatality rate around the country,
especially in Lagos.
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The governor, therefore, urged the citizens to take
responsibility and to know and appreciate that COVID-19 is real,
therefore they need to obey all the protocols that have been set
out for them to obey.
He said: “We have seen, unfortunately, the fatality rate around
the country, even in Lagos. One of the things we have realised is
that a lot more people require oxygen attention, they need
additional breathing aid. So we have started building what we call
oxygen tent, oxygen facilities; we are building about 10 of such
facilities.
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“We have commissioned about four of them and we are also
building additional two oxygen plants in the state so that we can
meet the respiratory requirements. We understand the virus more
than how we did eight to 10 months ago, so we know what treatment
should be. We are better positioned for that.
“We are also doing a lot more testing in Lagos than we were
doing five to six months ago: we are doing almost 2,500 to 3,000
tests every day, so we are watching the rate of positivity that we
have, which is also high. It has moved from the usual 10 to 12 per
cent and we are now seeing a positivity rate of about 25 and
sometimes 30 per cent. That is actually very disturbing.”
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