Lagos house to house search identifies more coronavirus cases, check numbers

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, on Tuesday announced the number of people infected with deadly COVID-19 in the state.

Abayomi said that about 119 people have been identified with coronavirus symptoms through the house-to-house active case search done by the state.

He said this at a press briefing on Tuesday, adding that the state is intensifying the identification procedure with the aim of identifying possible COVID-19 carriers in the state.

The commissioner said 118,000 households have been reached in the last one week through the house to house search.

The ‘Community Active Case Search’ was launched by the state government on April 6 and is to last for two weeks in the first instance.

While explaining the method of procedure for the exercise, the Commissuoner for Health said health workers would move from house to house in pairs to administer electronic questionnaires to citizens, the questionnaires will center on COVID-19 symptoms.

The active case search was a response to the local transmission of COVID-19 in the state, given that more cases have been recorded from local transmissions.

Mr Abayomi said the exercise started with high-risk areas and 119 possible carriers of COVID-19 have been identified in the process.

Meanwhile, the Lagos government on Tuesday revealed that there were nine more recoveries of the pandemic in the state and one death case was also recorded.