Gear Shortage Raises Concern Among Health Workers The Federal Government’s planned testing centres for coronavirus in Kano, Maiduguri and Abakaliki are yet to take off, even as more cases of the disease continue to spread across the country. Yesterday, eight persons tested positive to the virus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), raising the cases in the country to 89. This shows that the number of infected persons doubled within four days. Most of the cases are in Lagos, which recorded 52, while the Federal Capital Territory, the second highest, has 14 cases. Already, the virus has spread into five out of the six geo-political zones of the country, with only the North-West not registering any case.

Findings by Daily Trust on Sunday yesterday revealed that there were still no facilities to conduct test for the virus in the entire South-East, North-West and the North-East geo-political regions. On Thursday, the Federal Government disclosed that it was searching for 4,370 contacts across the country, a development experts said required effective and timely testing capabilities so as to quickly isolate new cases and curtail spread. The Minister of Health Dr Osagie Ehanire had announced last week that government was working towards establishing COVID-19 testing centres in Abakaliki, Kano and Maiduguri to augment the already five, which are inadequate for the country.

The Minister of Health Dr Osagie Ehanire had announced last week that government was working towards establishing COVID-19 testing centres in Abakaliki, Kano and Maiduguri to augment the already five, which are inadequate for the country.

The testing centres at the moment are: The NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Abuja; Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo; Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos; African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease, Ede, Osun State; the Nigeria Institute for Medical Research, Lagos, and the Lagos Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) in Yaba.

These centres are expected to test the rising number of suspected cases by the day. It was gathered that samples from Kano State are still being taken to the NCDC laboratory in Abuja for tests. Ebonyi would also commence testing for COVID-19 through the state government’s efforts on April 1, our reporter gathered.

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What is the job of the government there, why are our leader mad men and am very sure the ones I power will have done all all it takes to protect their loved ones

One was opened at Ibadan yesterday.

Another will be opened at Abakiliki today.

According to the NCDC.

Is it until people start dropping dead on streets that we would become proactive?..