THE Lagos State Government has shut down a private school based in Lekki after 181 of its students and staff members tested positive for the deadly coronavirus.
This is happening nearly 21 days after schools were directed to resume.
The Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, mentioned in a statement that the government commenced massive tests in the school and it was discovered that a student had had the deadly virus.
The Commissioner said: " 181 students and staff members of a private school located in a suburb of Lekki tested positive to COVID-19 during surveillance and case investigation in the school. There are 441 students and staff in the school."
He also mentioned that, “there is a total lockdown and movement restriction in the school with the Epidemiology and Surveillance Pillar of the EOC and Ibeju-Lekki LGA State Disease Surveillance and Notification Officer (DSNO) reporting at the school daily to conduct further investigations, while positive students and staff have been isolated on the premises and given the COVID-19 home-care treatment packs and are being monitored in isolation within the school premises.”
