The Lagos State Government on Wednesday placed 14 countries, including the United States, Canada, France and Germany on the watch list in a bid prevent a third wave of Covid-19 in the state.
Other
countries are: Netherlands, Togo, Ghana, Cameroun, Angola, South Africa, Kenya,
Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, Abayomi.
Lagos
Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi disclosed this at a news conference
in Alausa, Ikeja.
According to
him, India, Brazil and Turkey where new variants of COVID originated from and
is rapidly increasing, especially in the past seven days are classified as the Red
countries, while the Amber countries which consists of 14 nations are countries
that are currently experiencing active community transmission of the new
variants which originated from the Red countries.
The
Commissioner added that the Green Countries are countries with no known
variants of COVID or records of variants from Red Countries and no clear
increase in the number of daily confirmed cases.
Abayomi
disclosed that the State government would closely monitor inbound flights from
the Red and Amber Countries and set parameters for management of POIs from the
countries.
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