The Ogun State Government has developed a mobile application for people to self-assess themselves for the dreaded Coronavirus.

Earlier, the government had launched a real time mobile application, which updates concurrently, for health workers in March and has been deployed to all government and private facilities across its 20 local government areas to aid information dissemination.

In a statement made available on the official Twitter page of Ogun State Government signed by the Commissioner for Health, Tomi Coker, said the new application, named “Ogun COVID-19 Assessment” is not meant for diagnostic purpose but to determine the risk of resident’s exposure to the disease.

Ms Coker noted that the application is downloadable on Google play store and can also be assessed on https://t.co/XnAGM4aR7d and https://t.co/VVoGwULmRj.

She said that responses are monitored on a dashboard at the Ministry of Health, which will flag high risk individuals as red who are will be promptly followed up by the State Epidemiologist.

“This 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”. The Commissioner said.

She urged members of the public to take advantage of the mobile application reassuring  that the Dapo Abiodun led government in the state is putting measures in place to contain the disease.