100 days after index case, Nigeria reaches 80,000 Covid-19 tests

After 100 days of the index case of COVID-19 in the country, Nigeria has been able to test 80,000 citizens for the virus.

It has also built its testing laboratory capacity from two to 30 with a laboratory in every geopolitical zone in the country, providing increased access to testing.

The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic and Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, disclosed these as part of the achievements of the task force during a briefing in Abuja on Monday.

He said that a review of the 100 days also showed that over 13,000 health workers have been trained, increasing the human resource available for case management.

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Similarly, more personal protective equipment and ventilators have been procured and prepositioned across the country while the number of beds available for isolation and case management has increased from 3000 beds to 5000 beds nationwide.

He pointed out that the PTF has developed new guidelines for homecare and general case management and eacuated over 1000 Nigerians from different parts of the world while still reviewing the evacuation and quarantine protocols.

According to him, other achievements made during the period include enhancing the efficiency of the identification, testing, evacuation, and isolation process for confirmed cases and gradually reopening the economy while balancing between lives and livelihood.

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