By Jeremiah Urowayino
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has traced 6,700 contacts in Nigeria over the novel Coronavirus (COVI9-19) pandemic outbreak in the country.
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General of NCDC, made the disclosure at the Presidential Taskforce briefing on COVID-19 in the country, on Friday in Abuja.
“Nigeria has been tracing a total of 6,700 contacts in all; 71 per cent of them have been followed up as of yesterday,” he said.
Ihekweazu noted that people were “graduate’ out of contact-tracing after 14 days, if they showed no symptoms of the virus.
The NCDC DG said that all the focus of the agency for this week had been to improve the levels of contact tracing, by taking advantage of the lockdown.
“In Lagos state, the lockdown has been especially helpful for our contact tracing,” he noted.
Ihekweazu debunked that NCDC would never deploy anything without validating its use.
“The Jack Ma Test kits are being evaluated at…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
