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8,043 COVID-19 cases under home-based care in Lagos – Health commissioner
The Lagos State government said on Friday at least 8,043 COVID-19 cases are under home-based care across the state.
The state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, disclosed this in the daily update of the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the state and posted on his Twitter handle.
He added that 193 cases are receiving treatment at the state’s COVID-19 isolation centres.
READ ALSO: Lagos has recorded 200 COVID-19 deaths —Abayomi
According to Abayomi, a total of 248,794 COVID-19 tests had been conducted in the state since the inception of the pandemic in February last year.
Lagos remained the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria with 38,549 confirmed cases and 266 deaths caused by complications arising from infection by the virus.
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