COVID-19: LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT APPROVES 26 LOCATIONS FOR TESTING, RELEASES PHONE NUMBERS TO CALL.
The Lagos State Government have released phone numbers to call and locations for testing for COVID-19 and also ensures that testing is decentralized across all local government areas in the state.
Announcing the centers, the memo reads: “In order to ensure that persons with emergency cases have unhindered access to the covid-19 emergency number, 08000CORONA, Lagos State Government has approved 26 locations across the State where COVID-19 tests can be carried out with effect from Monday next week"
“In addition to the various locations, one in each local government and two centres in Ikorodu and six centres in Alimosho area of the State respectively, the State Government also released numbers to be contacted in each of the locations by members of the public."
“The intention of this, according to the Senior Special Assistant to the the Governor on Health, Dr. Oreoluwa Finnih is to redirect calls that are not genuine or specifically related to confirmed cases of the virus to areas where they could be locally handled."
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