COVID-19: Lagos Begins House-to-House Case Identification

The Lagos State Government has commenced a house to house case identification to detect possible cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in the State.

State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, disclosed this during a joint Ministerial Press briefing on COVID-19 intervention held on Thursday in Alausa, Ikeja.

Prof Abayomi stated that the COVID19 case identification campaign tagged the ‘Community Active Case Search’ commenced on Monday 6th April, 2020 and is expected to run for two weeks in the first instance across the State.

The commissioner 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.

According to him, the officials carrying out the exercise can be identified with the COVID-19 Outbreak Response tags and letter from the Local Government.

“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 inquiries about symptoms of cough, cold and fever”, he added,