COVID-19: Our Challenge Isn’t Lab Testing Capacity But Getting The Right Samples In – NCDC DG
The Director-General of the Nigeria Center For Disease Control , Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that the major limiting factor in the agency’s fight against the COVID-19 is the ability to efficiently get the right samples into the labs for testing.
“The challenge right now is not the laboratory testing capacity. It is how active our public health workforce is in collecting samples, identifying suspect cases, sending them into the lab for testing,” the NCDC DG said during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Tuesday. “Both the federal and state government have done everything possible to release the resources required for the response.Earlier in his address, Ihekweazu noted that when the COVID-19 broke out in China a few months ago, the country immediately started building its own laboratory capacity.
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