COVID-19: HOUSE - TO- HOUSE SEARCH FOR PATIENTS BEGINS IN LAGOS
Lagos State Government has started house-to-house search for identification of possible cases of Coronavirus in the State.
This was contained in a statement by the Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, during a joint Ministerial Press briefing on COVID-19 intervention in Lagos State held on Thursday in Ikeja.
Abayomi stated the COVID-19 case identification campaign tagged the ‘Community Active Case Serach’ is expected to be carried out for two weeks in the first instance across the state.
He stressed that the, means of identification of officials carrying out the assignment is by Response tags and letter from the Local Government.
He said, “In the coming days, some of our health workers will be moving around in pairs to administer an electronic questionnaire at homes and healthcare facilities to make enquiries about symptoms of cough, cold and fever.
“This is in a bid to intensify our search for possible cases of COVID-19 in different communities across the State. I implore you to give them your maximum support by providing accurate information that would help in containing this pandemic quickly.”
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