Chikwe Ihekweazu,
director-general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says 91
percent of confirmed contacts of COVID-19 patients have been identified.
As of March 30,
2020, more than 6,000 people were being traced in Lagos and Abuja over their
contact with COVID-19 patients.
At the media
briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 on Friday, Ihekweazu said
as of April 9, the centre had been able to track a good number of the contacts.
“We can confirm that
we know and are following up 91 percent, as at yesterday, of all the contacts
of all the confirmed cases,” he said.
“So, as at
yesterday, we had identified and are following up, every day, 91 percent of all
the contacts of confirmed cases that were confirmed up till the end of
yesterday.
“We are seeing some
early indication of a community transmission. That is
why the last time I
presented these figures, for about 30 percent of patients, we haven’t quite
figured out from whom they got that infection. That is an early indicator of
community spread, and we are working extremely hard right now. That’s the
purpose of the lockdown.”
In March, President
Muhammadu Buhari ordered a two-week lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the federal
capital territory as a measure to contain the spread of the virus.
The lockdown,
Ihekweazu had said, would allow the NCDC teams have access to the contacts that
reside around the areas affected by the lockdown. He had said any time they
record a new case, they add about 50 to 60 contacts that they then have to
follow every single day for 14 days.
As of 10pm on April
10, 2020, Nigeria had recorded 305 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
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