COVID-19: Lagos To Enforce Wearing Of Face Mask From Next Week Says Sanwo-Olu

Says Patients who lie about travel history will be prosecuted

Lagos State Government will from next week begin enforcement of wearing of face mask in public faces.

The state governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced this on Monday at the 7th briefing on COVID-19 at the State House, Marina, Lagos.

The governor said one million of locally made face mask have been contracted to tailors and will be distributed during the week.

He said, “patients who lie about their travel history will be prosecuted”.

He said, “These patients do not only endanger their lives but the lives of our front line medical personnel, we already have some names and they will be prosecuted duly”.

“We would, therefore, like to appeal to our health workers to raise alarm as soon as they notice anything of the sort,” he stated.

Meanwhile, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, had on Sunday said the wearing of face masks protects people around an infected person.

“There is some theoretical evidence that the wearing of masks may indeed reduce the amount of droplets in the environment from the person that is infected with COVID19 and that is the reason why we are beginning to define the strategy of face masks for the general community,” he said.