The Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
(NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has declared that every state in Nigeria will have
its share of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chikwe said this during his appearance on Channels
Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
According to the NCDC boss, the Federal Government was
making efforts to curb the spread of the virus, insisting that it has not been
an easy task.
“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,” he said.
“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,” he added.
“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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