COVID-19: Lagos May Run Out of Bed Space in 3 Weeks – Health Commissioner

Ololade Adeyanju/

Lagos State health commissioner, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has warned that the state may run out of bed space at its isolation centres in three weeks if the current trend of daily COVID-19 infections persists.

Abayomi disclosed this at a press briefing in Ikeja, the state capital, today.

He said the state was currently developing strategies for managing asymptomatic patients at home to address the projected rise in number of cases.

He said, “We’ve been testing more. We’ve been escalating our capacity to test for COVID-19 and what we’ve found is that the more we test, the more we find, which is a reflection of the fact that COVID-19 is spreading within the community and we’re finding more cases than we can manage eventually when we project.

“If we carry on with the rate of positive testing that we are obtaining, we’re going to run out of isolation beds in our established isolation facilities.

“Therefore, we are projecting. If we keep getting 150 to 200 positives everyday, in another two or three weeks, even though we’re opening new isolation centres all the time, in time, we’re going to run out of beds.”