The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said that the state had exited the fifth COVID-19 wave, noting that severe complications from the disease had ended.
Abayomi said this during the launch of a lithotripsy machine donated to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Lagos on Friday.
NCDC had on July 8, in a public health advisory, warned of the onset of the fifth COVID-19 wave arising from increasing daily infections.
According to the commissioner, though COVID-19 infection is still present, many residents have developed immunity against the disease from natural infection or vaccination.
“Now that we’ve weaned ourselves out of the fifth COVID-19 wave, it’s still rumbling around, but most residents have enough immunity either from natural infection or vaccination.”
“We are not seeing the severe complications of COVID-19 infection anymore,” Abayomi said.
