Chikwe Ihekweazu,
director-general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says the
agency is not satisfied with the number of samples brought in for testing from
states without cases of coronavirus.
Only Cross River,
Kogi, Nassarawa and Yobe states have not confirmed cases of the disease in
Nigeria as of Monday.
Speaking at the
media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 in Abuja, the NCDC DG
said there is a lot of capacity to test but the challenge is getting the
samples to test.
“Only four states at
the moment haven’t reported a case in Nigeria. They are Cross River, Kogi,
Nassarawa and Yobe,” he said.
“You can’t hide
this. Eventually, it will emerge. It is better we understand what is happening
early than leave it till we start hearing stories of deaths. So, we are really
encouraging the public health teams in these states to push out. There is
absolutely no doubt that there are people that have pneumonia, acute
respiratory infections in your states.
“Please collect
samples, send them to us let’s us test and know whether you have this thing
circulating in your state and mount an appropriate response. If it’s not, it’s
not but we cannot know if we don’t test.”
As of Sunday,
Nigeria had a total of 1,273 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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