COVID-19: Bed Capacity Utilisation Drops to 0% in Lagos

By Oluwafunke Ishola/

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says bed capacity utilization in the state’s public and private COVID-19 care centers has dropped to zero percent. 

Abayomi disclosed this through his Instagram account @profakinabayomi today while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for February 21.

He said that the total bed capacity at the 11 isolation centers is 572, and the available bed space was 570.

According to him, average case positivity now stands at 9.0 percent, and the fatality rate stands at 0.71 percent. 

He said that the state recorded seven new COVID-19 infections on the reported date, increasing its confirmed cases to 98,977. 

The commissioner said that 1,087,835 COVID-19 sample tests had been conducted in the state, with 80 percent done by private laboratories, while 20 percent was conducted by public laboratories. 

Also, the World Health Organisation Africa Region, said that over 11.1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases had been reported in Africa, with more than 10.4 million recoveries and 247,000 deaths cumulatively.