Sanwo-olu orders 50% event capacity over COVID-19 return

Earlier today, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos state, said COVID-19 third wave has hit the state and has reeled out new restrictions to contain the spread of the deadly disease.

As a result, Sanwo-olu has directed that religious, event centres and other enclosed places are to henceforth operate at 50 percent capacity.

According to him, since the end of March 2021, the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lagos began to wind down.

Sanwo-Olu regretted that in spite of the hard work and dedicated efforts towards sustaining the return to normalcy, the state is finding itself at the start of a potential third wave.

Sanwo-Olu said between 8th May 2021 and 7th July 2021, a total of 50,322 passengers of interest arrived in Lagos via the Murtala Mohammed Airport.

About 18 percent could not be reached by EKOTELEMED because of the provision of either wrong numbers or wrong Nigerian contact details to be reached on.

The United Kingdom is currently in the early stages of a third wave of coronavirus infections, a scientist advising the government has said.