Governor Babajide San-Olu who made the declaration in a statement issued on Tuesday disclosed that the state had begun to experience the beginnings of a fourth wave of the pandemic.
The statement noted that the current positivity rate is against the positivity rate of 0.1 per cent recorded as of mid-November and analyses revealed that the fourth wave is a result of non-adherence to the laid down protocols.
It appealed to residents to go to the various approved centres for the vaccine jabs to protect themselves from the virus while urging them to support the government in its effort to manage the fourth wave of the pandemic.