Lagos to Enforce Wearing of Face Masks

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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has said that wearing of face masks would be made compulsory for residents in the state from next week.

The governor disclosed this during a media briefing on COVID-19 updates in Lagos today.

He said the use of face masks would help to curb the spread of coronavirus in the state.

“From next week, we are going to be making face masks compulsory in Lagos state. We have commissioned more than one million face masks to be distributed in the state,” Sanwo-Olu stated.

The Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, had on Sunday said the wearing of face masks protects people around an infected person.

“There is some theoretical evidence that the wearing of masks may indeed reduce the amount of droplets in the environment from the person that is infected with COVID-19 and that is the reason why we are beginning to define the strategy of face masks for the general community,” he said.