The Lagos State Health Commissioner, Prof. Akin Abayomi, at a press briefing on Friday in Ikeja said the state might record between 90,000 and 120,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 by July or August, this year.
The Professor said that was the period the state was estimated to reach its peak.
According to him, the figure was just a mere projection and no certainty that the case would rise to that.
He added that the case would have gotten to 6,000 but the strategies deployed by the government had helped reduce the spread of the virus.
In his word, “Just a month ago, on April 7, we saw 10 cases per day. Two weeks later, it was 32, then 70 cases. We are now seeing above 100 cases per day. This shows our graph is moving in a gentle incline upwards.
“We definitely have not reached the peak of our outbreak. We suspect that the peak will happen sometime in July or August and so we are preparing for the oncoming; we are increasing our capacity and strategies to deal with this situation.
“Our model suggests that by July, we are going to see somewhere between 90,000 and 120,000 positive cases. However, our testing algorithms only test for people who have developed symptoms.”
Abayomi noted that the state recorded its highest number of COVID-19 cases on May 7 with 183 cases, adding that the increase in the case was due to the decentralized collection samples in the 20 Local Governments in the state.
He also made it known that the Testing Centres had also increased to four.
According to him, the increased cases had been recorded in Alimosho, Oshodi/Isolo, and Ikeja Local Government areas. He noted that only three percent of the confirmed cases in the state was severe while 97% had mild symptoms.
