Lagos State Government says it has commenced a house to house search for individuals infected with COVID-19 in the state.
The state Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this during a joint Press briefing on COVID-19 intervention held in Alausa, Ikeja on Thursday April 9, stated that the Coronavirus case identification campaign tagged the ‘Community Active Case Search’ commenced on Monday April 6, 2020 and is expected to run for two weeks in the first instance across the State.
He explained that health workers during this time will move from house to house, including health facilities, in pairs to administer electronic questionnaires on citizens, adding that the questions to be administered border on COVID-19 symptoms.
Abayomi stressed that the officials carrying out the exercise can be identified with the COVID-19 Outbreak Response tags and letter from the Local Government.
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Anaedoonline reported that hunger in the land has forced some Lagosians to protest in the streets over government’s lockdown order.
Residents of Lagos state have taken to the streets to protest the lockdown order by the federal and state government
The residents said that they do not have enough food that will sustain them till the next 2 weeks. They complained that they have not been paid and yet they are expected to stay at home.
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