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The Eti-Osa Isolation Centre will be under lock from Friday by the Lagos State Governor,Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The Governor at Lagos House, Marina, while giving the 17th update on the management of coronavirus in the state, disclosed the development.
In addition, the Agidingbi Isolation Centre would also be closed and the patients relocated to a soon to be inaugurated large capacity centre – Indo-Centre in Anthony area, Sanwo-Olu said.
“Over the last four, five months, we have built excess capacity centre, but that is only the way to go, you cannot over-prepare.
“We have got to a stage where we need to balance the economics of this and which of these facilities do we need to keep running.
“Some of them now are having less than 20 per cent of occupancy.
“This is why we reach a conclusion to shut Eti-Osa facility and another one in Lekki,’’ the governor said.
He explained that the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Yaba “is now also gradually being reverted back to its former status as a hospital to cater to all forms of infectious diseases’’.
He added that the Ca-COVID dedicated tent on the IDH grounds would, however, remain strictly for COVID-19 cases.
Sanwo-Olu mentioned that in June, the government further expanded COVID-19 testing capacity in Lagos with the accreditation of seven private laboratories.
Giving an insight ,he said , in the week ended July 26, the government successfully tested almost 9,000 samples in Lagos State, across the public and private sector laboratories, showing a 50 per cent increase from the approximately 6,000 samples tested in each of the previous two weeks.
The governor stated that the increase in testing would lead to an increase in the number of daily confirmed cases of the virus in the state.
According to him, this is a welcome development, since the government’s capacity to contain the pandemic depends significantly on how successful it is in identifying all the existing cases.
“I must, however, also mention that we have seen a general decrease in positivity rates in Lagos State over the past two weeks, which, combined with the increase in testing numbers, paints a very encouraging picture of the outcome of our response strategy.
“We will continue to fine-tune our efforts and strategies to build on our successes and close any existing gaps.
“It has now been five months since the first case of coronavirus was recorded in Nigeria.
“Since then, Nigeria has seen more than 43,000 infections and significant disruption of social, religious, educational and economic life, like every other part of the world.
“As at July 31, Lagos state has had a total of 15,150 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 10,835 persons who have recovered and discharged.
“We have sadly lost 194 persons to the virus.
“This leaves us with 1,813 active cases in community and 96 under management across various isolation centres in the state,’’ he said.
Fatimah Oyesanmi
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