Community transmission is fast emerging the fastest way of transmitting the Coronavirus disease according to Akin Abayomi, Lagos state commissioner of health.
In a briefing with journalists Monday, Abayomi said that community transmission is now responsible for 45 percent of new infections warning that there is now a need to apply precautions.
Currently, cases involving those who have returned from abroad are now 54 percent of infections. With the closure of International Airports, imported cases could still come through the land borders and vessels.
Abayomi also said that Eti Osa local government is recording high case community spread necessitating more monitoring activities in the surrounding areas.
Abayomi also said that there are some contacts that are not reachable.
The commissioner also took a swipe at those who are making prank calls on the emergency phones and clogging the system making it difficult for those with genuine concerns to reach the authorities for help.
Isaac Anyaogu is an Assistant editor and head of the energy and environment desk. He is an award-winning journalist who has written hundreds of reports on Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, energy and environmental policies, regulation and climate change impacts in Africa. He was part of a journalist team that investigated lead acid pollution by an Indian recycler in Nigeria and won the international prize - Fetisov Journalism award in 2020.
Mr Anyaogu joined BusinessDay in January 2016 as a multimedia content producer on the energy desk and rose to head the desk in October 2020 after several ground breaking stories and multiple award wining stories. His reporting covers start-ups, companies and markets, financing and regulatory policies in the power sector, oil and gas, renewable energy and environmental sectors
He has covered the Niger Delta crises, and corruption in NIgeria’s petroleum product imports.
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Mr Anyaogu studied mass communications and Media Studies and has attended several training programmes in Ghana, South Africa and the United States
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