BREAKING— LAGOS TO MANDATE WEARING OF FACE MASK FROM NEXT WEEK

Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu says wearing of face mask will be made compulsory as from next week.

The Governor announced this during a televised media briefing on coronavirus on Monday.

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 .”

According to Prof Akin Abayomi, he said wearing of the mask will protect everyone from contacting the virus.

He said:

“ 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 ,”