With a steady rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria, in which Lagos State is the epicentre, the state government has unfolded plans to begin a house-to-house search to identify those suspected of being infected with the virus.
The state Ministry of Health said in a statement that the exercise, tagged the ‘Community Active Case Search,’ which will be phased, will last for two weeks in the first lap, and would cover all the 20 local government areas in the state.
Lagos has 158 of the 288 confirmed cases in the country as data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) showed on Thursday that there were 14 new cases of COVID-19 in the country with 13 coming from Lagos.
However, seven more COVID-19 patients were discharged from the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, rallying the number of treated and virus-free patients in the state to 39.
But 51 of the infected have been discharged and seven deaths recorded nationwide.
