The focus of Nigeria’s response to the Coronavirus pandemic has shifted to building up testing capacity.
“This is a very tedious process, and we are following up about 5,000 contacts across the country. This is one of the reason the President asked us what we needed and gave us two weeks to free up the road and enable us to have the space to do this effectively. “More laboratories will join the network of molecular diagnostic laboratories for COVID-19 in Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri, Port Harcourt and Sokoto.
“As of today the 31st of March 2020, we have recorded 135 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nigeria, of which 81 are in Lagos, 25 in the FCT, 8 in Oyo, 4 in Ogun, 3 in Kaduna, 2 in Bauchi, 2 in Edo, 5 in Osun, 2 in Enugu, and one each in Benue, Ekiti and Rivers. “The incidence of new cases into Nigeria as a result of the closure of the airport and land borders will reduce the number of implications so that we will be dealing largely with those which have already been brought into the country and are being transmitted from person to person”.
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