The Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has declared that every state in Nigeria will have its share of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the NCDC boss, the Federal Government was making efforts to curb the spread of the virus, insisting that it has not been an easy task.
“Now, COVID-19 is on a much larger scale – at the moment in 22 states but it will grow to every state in Nigeria, there is no reason why it won’t – it is a respiratory virus,” he said.
“We just activated the lab in Kano a few days ago. So, these are the results of the increased testing capacity that we are providing for the country,” he added.
“Since the onset of the outbreak, we are testing a lot more (and) that is beginning to show. It is only so much we can do from NCDC; we are working with the state governments.
“They actually own the response at the state and local levels, and we need all of them now. We really have to face the reality that this is an outbreak, this is a virus.
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