In a bid to curtail the spread of coronavirus, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the use of face masks by residents will be made compulsory as from next week.
The governor said this in a live press conference, on COVID-19 updates in the state, on Monday.
Sanwo-Olu said this will help to a large extent in forestalling the spread of coronavirus in the state.
He said, “From next week, we are going to be making face masks compulsory in Lagos state. We have commissioned more than one million face masks to be distributed in the state.”
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi also strongly believed the use of masks would protect people around those infected.
“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 COVID-19 and that is the reason why we are beginning to define the strategy of face masks for the general community,” he said.