The Lagos State Government has lamented that some people who tested positive for COVID-19 have fled their homes when government officials came to take them to isolation centres.
This was disclosed by Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, while giving an update during the briefing on the COVID-19 situation in Lagos.
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He said that while some switched off their phones, the state government always experience a situation where some people who tested positive would run away from their home once they discover their status.
Further expressing his disappointment at the attitude of residents, Abayomi added that some positive patients would shut their doors against government officials and leave the environment because they were afraid of being isolated.
He, however, appealed to Lagos residents who tested positive not to flee but to cooperate with government officials.
Prof Abayomi stated:
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 community, people will flee their homes, and they make it difficult for us to find them.
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.
Lagos State remains the epicentre of the disease in Nigeria as the figure of positive cases has been on the rise since the state confirmed its first case in February.
Meanwhile, following the ease of lockdown in the state by the Federal Government, Lagos State has witnessed a rise in COVID-19 cases as residents have been reported to be flouting laid down measures as they go about their businesses.
