The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said a total of one hundred and nineteen (119) people with symptoms of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been identified in the state.

Abayomi, at a press conference on Tuesday, April 14th, 2020, said the search of possible coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in communities has reached a total of one hundred and eighteen thousand (118,000) households.

He said that community search was put in place, to minimize the spread of coronavirus disease in Lagos State, which has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country.

We’ve embarked on an active case search in communities. The idea is to go to hot spots and go from door to door with our health personnel. So far, in the last two days, we’ve visited 118,000 households and we’re looking for the typical symptoms of COVID-19. We’ve identified about 119 people who have the symptoms that are suggestive of COVID-19.

But let me remind you that COVID-19 is one of the viruses that can cause respiratory symptoms. There are many viruses. So, the idea is to take samples from these 119 and analyse them and that would give us an idea of how much COVID-19 activity is happening in the communities,

Abayomi said.

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