Coronavirus: Nigeria in 'desperate need' of testing kits – NCDC

Nigeria is desperately in need of testing materials to expand the daily testing capacity for the coronavirus, the director ofMr Ihekweazu, who disclosed this on Twitter, also gave specification of the test kits Nigeria was looking for and preferred manufacturers.

Official figures of Nigeria’s coronavirus infections crossed a thousand threshold on Friday, but there are indications the tally could vastly understate the true spread and toll of the contagion due to poor testing capacity. During a briefing of the Presidential Task Force for COVID-19 in Abuja last Tuesday, the NCDC DG said that the centre would increase the testing capacity to 4000 per day across the country with 2000 samples to be done per day in Lagos State.“They are not meeting the target of 1, 500 testing per day,” said Usman Abdulrahman, an official of NIDS, a multidisciplinary society of practitioners in the field of infectious diseases.

Although the health minister, Osagie Ehanire, said the testing materials had been made available and the centre will resume operations on Monday, the state has no recorded case for three consecutive days’ despite being one of the country’s hotspots.

look at this fools, while Senegal are busy testing people with their own invention, this fools are here begging ..criminals in position of power ..

Keep being desperate. Is Senegal not your mate that has started producing them?

Why not just run to Senegal, give them some money, learn how they do the $1 testing kit and come back home with some kits while we manufacture our own too!

Go and learn for Senegal. You evil people wouldn't, because all you know is steal, steal and steal. Next news; FG import unimaginable 20k test kits.

After just testing 10,000 people. Please order the $1 testing kit made in Senegal

Swallow your pride, go to Senegal 🇸🇳

Is there something essential to life that this country doesn’t need desperately? I think not.

Over one month you people do not have any arrangements for kits, and you locked us at home just like that.

We have been in desperate need of testing kits since January, I wonder why it took you so long. NCDCgov said we weren't competing with numbers, has that changed? I made this conclusion since they never reported of tests with other daily numbers.

We had next to nothing test kits at the start of the pandemic before we started receiving donations, and we are still not willing to purchase lab test kits, expecting another Jack Ma donation. Shame of a country.

Contact Senegal

Can't we look within & develop for our own use ? Afterall 'Necessity is the mother of invention'

Buy from Senegal

You Do Good Jare! WELL DONE, WE KUKU BE MUMU BUT GOD GO FIGHT FOR US .

Why cant we produce? Must we consume? Why not engage scientists, engineers and other professionals in production? How can something so simple be so difficult for us as a country

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No shame.....go borrow from Senegal

What a shame? Senseless and bunch of idiots! Senegal Nigeria

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