The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said he does not know the location of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Abba Kyari, in Lagos.
Mr Kyari had last week tested positive to the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic. It was later rumoured that he had been flown outside the country to be treated of the disease. Some said he was flown to Cuba.
However, in a statement on Sunday, Kyari confirmed he tested positive to the novel coronavirus disease and had been working from home. He added that he would by Monday, be in Lagos to undergo “further tests and observations”.
On Tuesday, during a briefing, Prof. Abayomi, said, “I’m not aware of the Chief of Staff’s itinerary, so I don’t know where he is, we chat on WhatsApp but I cannot tell where he is from our chat.
“We are exchanging information but I haven’t asked him for his location. He seems well and happy and we are exchanging information on strategic issues. It has been a long time we talked about his health, I presume he has made a full recovery.”
He also said that, “Most of our patients are experiencing a very mild to moderate degree of illness; in fact, we don’t have anybody that requires ventilation at the moment which is a symptom of what we will describe as severe disease.
“If we are to put some percentages on the 66 cases, about 33 of them are showing mild symptoms, the remaining 33 are showing moderate disease symptoms just characterised by severe fever, feeling weak, some coughing, headaches and body pains. It is not extending to affect the organs such that we have lung or kidney failure,” the commissioner said.