Despite the announcement by the Lagos State government for residents with coronavirus-like symptoms to go to designated government-run facilities to get tested, these laboratories that carry out the tests for free, are instead redirecting patients to private laboratories where they are charged upwards of N50,000 to the test.
This reporter deliberately exposed himself cold for four days and came down with symptoms similar to those of coronavirus – cough, headache, runny nose and fever – and presented himself for testing at several public laboratories in…
