UPDATE: 10 takeaways from today’s briefing by the Lagos Commissioner for Health, @ProfAkinAbayomi, on the Lagos COVID-19 response.
#Covid19Lagos

1. Lagos State Govt has tested 16,000 suspected cases of #COVID19 since the outbreak of the pandemic in Nigeria. The highest in the country.

2. The cost of testing a patient ranges between N40,000 and N50,000. It is free for patients and Government bears the cost. Efforts are on to get the cost subsidised through Insurance or donations by aid partners.

3. Due to global shortage of reagents used in testing, Lagos Govt has contacted local scientists to produce alternatives. Two of the scarce reagents have been produced locally, thereby taking the pressure of chasing manufacturers of reagents overseas.

4. With the availability of reagents, Lagos to commence 1,000 tests per day on the coming days.

5. Lagos is about to roll out HydroxylChloroquine trial

6. Lagos will be validating a rapid-testing model, which will give hospitals the opportunity to test any person coming to the medical facility under 10 minutes. Some manufacturers have been engaged for this activity.

7. LASG is reviewing Bio-Security Emergency Preparedness Plan that will enable the State to ramp up capacity of its healthcare system & emergency response for future pandemic(s). This plan will raise Government’s capacity in controlling water-borne, airborne infectious diseases.

8. Post COVID, Lagos will be looking at urban renewal plan that will ensure people don’t live in a way that aid the spread of infectious diseases.

9. COVID-19 is NOT a death sentence; there’s high recovery rate, except there’s underlying health issue.

10. The Government is anxious to slowly reactivate the economy but residents must be coronavirus-conscious in their dealings.

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Point 6 is extremely important.

Many people with disease conditions that have symptoms resembling covid 19 such as heart failure, pulmonary edema in those with advanced kidney failure, etc are being turned back from hospitals due to fear of covid 19, basically sending these patients to go and die at home. A pity.

Quite Informative

The no 9 is what we want to here from you always.

I thought they said it cost 10k..Now its 50k...Inflation they worry Covid 19...

In all, prevention is better than cure. I believe this is not Government contract price. It means that the economy will surely feel the effect of covid19.

Thats why you see those imaginery numbers of people that have covid 19. they say 209 yesterday,304 today and 182 tomorrow. Then you will hear 16 have been cured and sent back to society. so each name is worth 50k oboy this wan pass yankee tax scam.No picture or Id needed so you people now see that in this country we really need help. We cant give people at least 10k to soften the financial effects of covid 19 but we can charge them 50k to test for covid 19. See what i said ooo test for 50k not cure for 50k.

I tink say na take-away food


Na joke o Kudos to the LASG.

COVID-19 is NOT a death sentence. Make una no fear.

The infected ones are eating jollof rice and throwing back flip in isolation centre

FIatino:
I tink say

Na takeaway packs?

You too like OWAMBE

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Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright

But na 10,000 Naira before na


Imagine "The cost of testing a patient ranges between N40,000 and N50,000"

O boy see format
Which means about seven hundred million don go down for just testing in Lagos not to talk of the entire nation

Confused bastards

Take away full of LIES LIES and LIES!!!!!

Sanwo-olu is more competent than buhari.
Like for sanwo olu, share for buhari.
Gerrout for both

Mtchew

espn:
I thought they said it cost 10k..Now its 50k...Inflation they worry Covid 19...

Fear who no fear Nigeria government especially diz Saint Buhari own

Seems like a nice plan......while we keep waiting for a vaccine or cure.

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Heh

Very Good

The cost of testing a patient ranges between N40,000 and N50,000

This people are cashing out big time. As far as this is constant, then Covid-19 is here to stay in Nigeria forever

2. The cost of testing a patient ranges between N40,000 and N50,000. It is free for patients and Government bears the cost. Efforts are on to get the cost subsidised through Insurance or donations by aid partners.


This one is actually true.
One of my cousin working in one of the testing center in Lagos told me the cost of testing is around 50k.

in those days of using Quine,that thing dat scratch the hell iutta u.Abeg,let dem start with number 5 and free us from diz pathetic one day ON/OFF rotation of biz/market day like NEPA

2. The cost of testing a patient ranges between N40,000 and N50,000.

And NCDC is the only authorized body to do the testing. No wonder the number of positive cases increases on per second basis.

They forgot to tell us the amount used to treat a patient.

If you know, you know.

I see this guy becoming the health Minister come 2023

unlike that swegbe man that is the current Health Minister telling us to prepare for the worst, am I paying tax to FIRS to prepare for the worst? or the seating allowance they paid him as Presidential Task Force on Covid - 19 is for me to prepare for the worse

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emeijeh:


Na takeaway packs?

You too like OWAMBE

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Choi. Oil dey ya head

God willing we will this fight

Lagos

10k to 50k per test, Covid-19 is yielding more than oil now in Nigeria

Better ooooo. Reopen and orientate peopl on daily living ooo

Hmm
The testing cost per person too much ooo.