The National Testing capacity is now at 1500 a day – Minister of Health
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire has announced that Nigeria can now carry out 1500 coronavirus tests a day. He said this on Thursday during a briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.
“With the expanded national case definition and addition of two new laboratories to test for COVID-19 in Ibadan and Ebonyi States, the national testing capacity is now at 1,500 a day. I applaud all our health workers and emergency responders in this critical time, he said
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu also disclosed that the health agency has deployed officials to 15 states to boost the fight against the spread of coronavirus.
He said;
“Yesterday (Wednesday) we conducted the highest number of COVID-19 tests and recorded the highest number of positive cases in Nigeria,” Ihekweazu said.
“We have also deployed 15 rapid response teams to support 15 states. This is the largest deployment of resources ever for an outbreak in Nigeria.”
