Coronavirus Will Surely Get To Every State – NCDC

April 16, 2020

As coronavirus sweeps through 22 states in Nigeria, with 407 confirmed with 128 discharged persons and 12 recorded deaths.

Coronavirus Will Surely Get To Every State - NCDC

There is a projection by the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu who disclosed that Coronavirus will get to every state in Nigeria.

The director while comparing the virus to Lassa Fever on Channels Television Sunrise Daily programme, also revealed that it has not been easy stopping the spread of Coronavirus.

He said;

We have responded to Lassa smoothly and nobody shut down the country because it wasn’t necessary, the response was fairly efficient.

Now, COVID-19 is on a much larger scale – at the moment in 22 states but it will grow to every state in Nigeria, there is no reason why it won’t – it is a respiratory virus.

We just activated the lab in Kano a few days ago. So, these are the results of the increased testing capacity that we are providing for the country.

The tests are fairly robust; I can’t say 100 per cent, but they are as close to that as possible. We had the highest number of positive cases in a single day.

Since the onset of the outbreak, we are testing a lot more (and) that is beginning to show. It is only so much we can do from NCDC; we are working with the state governments.

They actually own the response at the state and local levels, and we need all of them now. We really have to face the reality that this is an outbreak, this is a virus.

It will circulate in Nigeria, absolutely no doubt and our responsibility as a country is to prepare more, to be able to detect, isolate, treat, list contacts, and stop transmission.

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