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Moses Emorinken, Abuja The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday disclosed that the country currently carries out between 3,000 and 6,000 daily COVID-19 tests. It said although the testing infrastructure available can conveniently carry out 15,000 daily COVID-19 tests, the country is yet to Read More …
School reopening: Ogun cancels COVID-19 test requirement Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, on Monday, cancelled the initially announced Covid-19 test requirement for resuming pupils in exiting classes. There has been outrage by parents of pupils in private secondary schools in the state over the Read More …
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says there are now 59 laboratories with the capacity to test for COVID-19 across 29 states and the FCT, while two rapid diagnostic are in the pipeline for validation. Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General, NCDC, made this Read More …
Lagos residents who are unable to get themselves tested in government own facilities would henceforth pay N50,400 in a private laboratory to conduct COVID-19 test. The state’s commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi disclosed this while launching the Lagos State Private-Public Consortium on the management Read More …
Kano, Ogun, Edo, Oyo fail to disclose amount spent on COVID-19 tests Kwara, Ogun, Kano, Edo and Oyo states on Sunday failed to disclose the amount they had spent on COVID-19 tests. A few weeks ago, it was disclosed that Lagos State had spent N800m Read More …
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has disclosed one of its biggest challenges in scaling up of COVID-19 test across the country. NCDC Director-General, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed that the body’s biggest challenge in scaling up testing in Nigeria was the maintenance of laboratories Read More …
•Accuses Bello of frustrating testing in Kogi •Unhappy with Wike, Ayade •NMA slams claims by Kogi, Cross River to be coronavirus- Yusuf Alli, Managing Editor, Northern Operation/ Moses Emorinken, Abuja THE Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Coronavirus Disease has formally reported Governor Yahaya Read More …
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has disclosed that 22,000 Nigerians have been tested for coronavirus. NCDC Director General, Chikwe Ihekweazu made the disclosure during the daily press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, on Thursday. The NCDC DG said Read More …
Our Reporter Nigeria’s testing capacity for COVID-19 has increased to 2,500 daily at 15 laboratories. Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Director-General Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, who announced this on Thursday, also said the proposed amendment to the NCDC Bill can wait till after the pandemic. Read More …
THE Federal Capital Territory, FCT branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has urged the federal government to allow other laboratories test for coronavirus. The organisation also said there was the urgent need for the government to decentralize testing and turn around time for tests Read More …