Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has in the wee hours of Wednesday reported 195 new Coronavirus cases.
The centre made this known on its official Twitter page, stating that 80 of the new cases were reported in Lagos, 38 in Kano, 15-Ogun, 15-Bauchi, 11-Borno, 10-Gombe, 9-Sokoto, 5-Edo, 5-Jigawa, 2-Zamfara and one each in Rivers, Enugu, Delta, FCT and Nasarawa.
195 new cases of #COVID19 reported;
80-Lagos
38-Kano
15-Ogun
15-Bauchi
11-Borno
10-Gombe
9-Sokoto
5-Edo
5-Jigawa
2-Zamfara
1-Rivers
1-Enugu
1-Delta
1-FCT
1-NasarawaAs at 11:50pm 28th April- 1532 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria.
Discharged: 255
Deaths: 44 pic.twitter.com/oPyG4xfoa3— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 28, 2020
As at Monday night, Nigeria recorded 1337 Coronavirus cases, 255 discharged patients and 40 deaths.
However, with the new cases, there are now 1532 Coronavirus cases, 255 discharged and 44 deaths across the country.
Meanwhile, NCDC Director General, Chikwe Ihekweazu during Tuesday’s Presidential Taskforce for COVID-19 briefing said the laboratory strategic group for Nigeria is targeting to test two million people in 3 months.
He stated that;
Our goal remains to reduce transmission, & we urge the public to avoid unessential travel.
According to him, the only entry point to the control of Coronavirus in Nigeria is through testing.
The NCDC Boss stressed that;
As we continue to scale up our testing capacity, we seek strong collaboration of state governments & public health teams to ramp up sample collection from the right people.
“In collaboration with partners we have expanded our testing capacity.
The lab strategic group for #COVID19Nigeria set a target to test two million people in 3 months.
Our goal remains to reduce transmission, & we urge the public to avoid unessential travel.
~ @Chikwe_I pic.twitter.com/LbceICO77a
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 28, 2020
The centre today also said it has adopted a new Coronavirus testing method called COBAS system at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, which will speed up testing rate.
According to NCDC, with the new method approximately 960 samples can be tested in 8 hours
Today, we began the use of the COBAS system at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory, for #COVID19 testing
Using this, approximately 960 samples can be tested in 8 hours
This begins the 2nd prong of our national strategy to integrate lab systems & increase testing capacity pic.twitter.com/fTcPPEGcmz
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 28, 2020
According to a report on NCDC’s website, Nigeria as at April 27th had tested 10918 persons.
