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Nigeria Stockpiles Drugs, Treatment Kits for Coronavirus

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The federal government yesterday said that it has ordered some drugs and treatment kits relevant to the management of Coronavirus and other diseases, as part of strategies to contain occurrence of the virus in the country.

On Lassa fever epidemic, the minister said that so far the country has had 586 cases with about 103 deaths. He said that the government was aware of the recent alarm raised by the National Agency for Drug Administration and Control on the looming scarcity of medicine but that it was a global concern that affects virtually all products, due to slowing down of business operations caused by the disease outbreak.

Speaking about the spread of the Coronavirus, he said that the good news is that all of the five incidents that met the WHO case definition, have been investigated and found negative. According to Mamora, at the moment, Nigeria and the African continent have not witnessed any case of Coronavirus infection.

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