State governments have also been advised to introduce mobile court system to punish citizens who may flout the restriction order.
“The cause of the outbreak can be attributed to open defecation and poor sanitation in the communities.
The development necessitated setting up of advocacy platforms as a strategy in the fight against the disease, an official said.
“Lagos has a network of 180 km transmission mains and 2.215 km distribution mains, of which some are as old as 108 years.”
“Asthma is one of the commonest causes of presentation at emergency departments and is the third leading cause of preventable hospitalisation.”
“It is not the PMTCT that is not working. It is the strategy that we have to tweak. If you look at the numbers we had as far back as 2006; we had about 13,000 women on treatment.”
The mother and the nine babies are in stable condition.
A trigger for a third wave of COVID-19 in Lagos was likely to be importation of new strains from inbound travelers,the official said.
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One of the staff was sacked over rape charges, two used details of other staff to obtain loans and another was charged with the conduct of private practice and abortion.
Two persons were arrested during the enforcement exercise.
