The Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu in a briefing of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 has elaborated why the Commission cannot certainty of whether the Covid-19 positive cases is limiting.
The low cases were reported in the past weeks but cannot be interpreted to mean decline in infection rate because nine states are performing below expectations on testing and sample collection.
These States are: Taraba, Adamawa, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Kebbi, Zamfara, Jigawa and Yobe.
However, NCDC disclosed only three states Lagos, FCT, and Abuja- can confidently report decline because they have tested the highest number of samples so far.
The Director-General of NCDC, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, made these known during the briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.
He said: “Yes we report figures on a national basis but in reality, the drivers of this epidemic are different across the country. So we have to really have a sub-national understanding of what is going on.”
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