The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has warned of a large possibility of transmission of coronavirus to almost every state in Nigeria.
The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made this statement during a live programme on Channels Television, Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
Ihekweazu said:
“What we are trying to achieve, and it’s very important for Nigerians to understand, is a landscape where we can continue our work in responding, while we restart parts of the economy.
“We are responding to something, at the moment, across 22 states. But it will grow to almost every state in Nigeria. There is no reason it won’t. It is a respiratory virus.
“So, what we are trying to achieve right now, in the short term, is not to stop transmission because we know that will be very difficult to do. No country in the world has achieved that.”
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control had announced that 34 new Coronavirus Cases have been recorded in Nigeria on Wednesday, April 15, bringing the total number to 407.
This was disclosed by the NCDC on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday, who also confirmed that the 18 of the new cases were recorded in Lagos, 12 in Kano, two in Katsina, 1 in Delta and another 1 in Niger State.
NCDC wrote;
“As at 11:20 pm 15th April, number of states with confirmed cases of #COVID19: 19 + FCT Lagos- 232 FCT- 58 Osun- 20 Kano- 16 Edo- 15 Oyo- 11 Ogun- 9 Katsina- 7 Bauchi- 6 Kaduna- 6 Akwa Ibom- 6 Kwara- 4 Delta- 4 Ondo- 3 Enugu- 2 Ekiti- 2 Rivers-2 Niger- 2 Benue- 1 Anambra- 1,”