Ogun State Government said it was awaiting the approval of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to begin the mobile testing for COVID-19 in the state.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, disclosed this on Thursday, in a telephone interview with The PUNCH.
She said “We hope to start soon after the NCDC accreditation. The mobile application is an assessment tool for the individual members of the public on the basic symptoms of coronavirus. It can be downloaded on Google play store. The App is not for diagnostic purpose.
“Responses are monitored on a dashboard at the ministry of health which will flag high risk individuals as red. Such individuals will be promptly followed up by the state epidemiologist.”
Coker said the mobile testing would cover between 50 and 100 people per day.
She also spoke on the difference in the number of cases the NCDC recorded for the state and that of the state government. While the centre says Ogun has four cases, the state government says it is six.
She said the tests for the two new cases in the state were conducted in Lagos, adding that the NCDC would soon include them in its list.
