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COVID-19: Some Persons Who Tested Positive Have Fled Their Homes — Lagos Govt
The Lagos state government on Friday bemoaned what appears to be lack of cooperation on the part of some residents of the state in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking at a press conference on Friday, commissioner for health in the state, Akin Abayomi, attributed the empty bed spaces in isolation centres to difficulty the state sometimes encounter in locating patients after their samples had been tested for the coronavirus.
According to the commissioner, such patients fled their homes and rendered themselves incommunicado by switching off their mobile phone lines.
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He implored residents to cooperate with the health workers as part of efforts to contain the spread of the virus.
“There is also a situation that we experience; when we test people, sometimes they find it difficult to find them. The ambulances will go into communities, people will flee their homes, and they make it difficult for us to find them,” he said.
“If you have tested positive, we expect you to cooperate with us and make yourself available so that you can be admitted and accessed.
“Our isolation facilities are really comfortable. It is not like the Ebola days; we have made a lot of improvements. Members of the executive and senior people in government have been admitted into those facilities. If I test positive, I will go to one of those facilities.”
He added that about 307 beds are unoccupied out of the 569 spaces available.
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