Although the government said testing of suspected COVID-19 carriers is no longer a challenge, it described collection of samples was the headache.
Ehanire said 99 per cent of those traced have exceeded their 14-day observation period, which has significantly helped the entire strategy to curb the spread of the pandemic virus in the country. “The Federal Ministry of Health and its agencies are developing the new National Action Plan as a strategy to respond to the imminent phase of COVID-19 community transmission,” he said.He said the centre now has 12 molecular diagnostic laboratories across the country, but that samples collection and other response activities were the major challenges to overcome.
”The challenge right now is not the laboratory testing capacity, but how active our public health workforce is in collecting samples, identifying suspect cases, and sending them into the labs for testing. ”We have achieved this largely by leveraging existing molecular laboratory capacity within our network and within some centres across the country. “We now have a capacity to test 1,500 people per day across the network. We are not close to exhausting this capacity every day.
From the statistics of 2 weeks ago, I feel the method of testing and self-isolation of unconfirmed infected patients is wrong. That is why we are having more alarming rate. If I may, let's take a cue from the 127 returnees from Abidjan.
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