Lagos State has conducted 16,000 tests since the outbreak of coronavirus, the highest test done by any state in Nigeria, its commissioner for
said this at a press briefing on Thursday. He said Lagos is doing more in the area of tests and has plans to increase its tests to 1,000 per day.
Mr Abayomi said the state has four established laboratories, which are testing sites for COVID-19 and the state is hoping to double the testing centres in the coming weeks. Mr Abayomi added that since there is a shortage of reagents around the world, “but scientists in Lagos have been very innovative, and have locally manufactured two out of three reagents needed to carry out the COVID-19 molecular tests”.He added the third reagent is harder to make, but some institutions are already working on how to produce them.
Although, with the current testing capacity of the state, it is unlikely to reach the governor’s target in two months.
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