The Director-General of the Nigeria Center for Disease
Control NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that a total of 138 members of the
National Youth Service Corps have tested positive for the dreaded coronavirus
disease.
Speaking at the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce
on COVID19, in Abuja Ihekweazu, said that none of the prospective corps members
who tested positive was allowed into the camps.
“A total of 34,785 corps members and members of the camp
communities have been tested so far in the last weeks of which only 138 was
found positive, which is 0.4 per cent prevalence and 1 in 200 people.
“However, all those
who tested positive were either managed at home or in a treatment centre
depending on if they had symptoms and what state they are in,” he said.
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