The Commissioner for Health in Lagos, Professor Akin Abayomi, said that 2,430 persons who tested positive for COVID-19 have not shown up at treatment centres in the State.
Professor Abayomi stated this while giving updates on the COVID-19 situation in Lagos on Saturday, and confirmed that 87 of the 748 COVID-19 test carried out on 3rd July returned positive.
He said that some persons who had tested positive to the virus, did not report for treatment.
“However, 2,430 active cases in the communities are yet to turn up for admission in care centres either due to fear of stigmatization or preference for home care treatments.”
The Commissioner had in May 2020, said that the State would make home care an option for persons with mild symptoms due to the rising number of persons who were avoiding isolation centres and that the isolation treatment centres were 60 to 70 per cent filled.
“There are people who are already practicing self/home-isolation on their own, because we can’t find them, the numbers they give us, maybe they are false or they don’t answer their phones. When you go out to pick them at their residences. So, they are isolating themselves in different places,” Prof. Abayomi said in May.
Till date, about 42,348 total cumulative tests had been done in the State and 10,926 turned out positive and COVID-19 related death in the State had risen to 177, he said.
The Commissioner noted that 6,259 cases monitored in communities by the COVID-19 Lagos response team have either fully recovered or positively responding to treatments.
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