Lorazepam:
500 tests in one day

I thought Buhari said Lagos will be doing 1500 tests daily and Abuja 1000 tests.

South Africa has carried out over 100k test and Ghana has carried out over 50ktests, while we still dey on 7k tests

We are not ready in this country

tophumble:
Sincerely NCDC is really trying
I just hope we overcome COVID19 soon
At least with recent developments, lessons av been learnt

Lorazepam:
500 tests in one day

I thought Buhari said Lagos will be doing 1500 tests daily and Abuja 1000 tests.

South Africa has carried out over 100k test and Ghana has carried out over 50ktests, while we still dey on 7k tests

We are not ready in this country

TheGoodJoe:
NCDC boss and Minister of Health should be fired by now. They do not know what they are doing. We need to know the spread of tests among all the states. How many tests going on to determine of there is break out in other States.

Covid-19 is deadly when the spread goes on by asymptomatic people. We need massive tests. If they can not convince the Federal, State and local governments to channel all resources towards the Covid-19 war, they should step down immediately.

Lockdown means nothing without testing, isolating and treating infected ones.

NwaNimo1:
Thank God Enugu airport was closed.......blessing in disguise.

Lorazepam:
500 tests in one day

I thought Buhari said Lagos will be doing 1500 tests daily and Abuja 1000 tests.

South Africa has carried out over 100k test and Ghana has carried out over 50ktests, while we still dey on 7k tests

We are not ready in this country

AnonPoet:


https://twitter.com/NCDCgov/status/1251520977550348288?s=19

Coronavirus1:

Fire what are you mad do you know the hectic work involved you sit in your comfort zone making mouth fire fire thunder fire your mouth there if you are give the job tell us what can you do in as much I hate this government is not easy to contain this pandemic the whole world on lockdown people are here committing Rubbish.

olumide4christ:
When I see some responses to this topic, I feel that many people are looking at this matter from one angle...the govt has tested few people, in South Africa and Ghana, they have tested thousands. Now in these other countries even the USA, China, Italy, etc, did we ever hear that the government forcefully entered the homes of citizens and started testing them one by one? NO, NOT AT ALL!
Citizens in these countries who weren't feeling well showed up at the hospitals and they were tested and those who were positive were hospitalized. How many of us in Nigeria including some of us commenting here have willfully gone to any hospital or isolation centers when we weren't feeling fine? If you take a census, there may be just few knowledgeable ones. But many of us Nigerians will prefer to do self help than to show up for testing. That's the reason why Nigerians rushed to buy all the chloroquine available in pharmacies when Donald Trump announced that it may be a cure.
Truthfully, even if the NCDC decides to do door to door testing, how many people commenting here will gladly open their doors for NCDC to come in? Let's be sincere and not be hypocritical.
Thus, let's not crucify the government alone, let's also bash ourselves for not doing our own part. As they say, it takes 2 to tango.

Even in the US today 2 months after the index case, have they tested up to 10 million people, when they have a population of 350 million people? Not at all!!

Salako01:



Am not surporting the government but I heard when the minister of health during one of their routine briefing said, that they are prioritising testing those in a particular affected communities, people who have been seen to have had interaction with someone down with the virus, those that show symptoms. If we take this then there is no reason to compare Nigeria with any other country doing 1m test per day. Let us learn to appreciate our government just sometimes. This is what they are using as their strategy and so far, they have done well because Brazil that reported their first case of Corona same day Nigeria did has thousands of cases now. The Nigerian government is testing based on a strategy they think is best. Let allow them do that. Even if they tested everyone in this country Nigerians will still find sth negative to say.

Coronavirus1:

Fire what are you mad do you know the hectic work involved you sit in your comfort zone making mouth fire fire thunder fire your mouth there if you are give the job tell us what can you do in as much I hate this government is not easy to contain this pandemic the whole world on lockdown people are here committing Rubbish.

From the video, to think the said man who had this very unprofessional conduct did that with his bare hands without gloves and was seen transferring one hand towards his nose area, shows he doesn't even understand the risk factors and mechanism of transmission of the virus. Now what becomes of the car he kept leaning towards? Wouldn't that constitute a formite for the spread of such virus if innocent Nigerians around such vicinity decide to rest themselves around such car? For me, public health guards were let down by the NCDC in all arrangements for the burial, and this should not be repeated if we must contain the spread of COVID 19.

TheGoodJoe:


How will we know the amount of cases if we are not testing? You people keep praising our low count, forgetting we have only tested 7K people which is totally unacceptable.

samictelecoms11:
uhm okay oo

Salako01:


U actually have a valid point here. But if the cases are huge then there is no way the symptoms or deaths will be concealed for long by those affected since it been long since the very first case was reported. Some are even saying the virus has been here for long before the govt announced it. The deaths would have mounted. If people are not dying then it simply means the virus is not as far spread as fears. This also means that there is no need to go around testing everyone.

TheGoodJoe:


South Africa is launching an aggressive coronavirus screening program as the total number of confirmed cases tops 1,000, the largest amount of any country on the continent.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Monday night that at least 10,000 field workers will be going door-to-door in the next few days to conduct mass screenings and testing for the virus.

South Africa is already observing a 21-day lockdown aimed at containing the virus.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/south-africa-launches-door-door-coronavirus-screening%3famp

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Stop defending the mediocrity of the current handlers of the Health Ministry and NCDC. As early as March 31, 2020, South Africa began mass testing of its people. We always try to blame the people for the poor handling of matters by the elites.

Donpruddy:
[Nigeria has less covid cases as compared to ghana and a high recovery than ghana. Which we those in ghana envy. quote author=sweettease post=88586222]What a disgrace! Even Ghana with less covid fund has done over 50k tests and that stands at over 1k per 1million population. Nigeria is at 35 per 1million population. Such a disgrace! Who did this to us?

eyinjuege:


I thought it was from the donated funds that they're building covid centers around the country?
Lagos and Port Harcourt are completed. Enugu and Kano are also in progress, Sokoto and Maiduguri will also have centers.

TheGoodJoe:


]The main topic is that the federal government has released N15 Billion to fight Covid-19 in Nigeria. We need to know what they have done with the money, what is left and what they will do with the remainder.

Time is of the essence.

AnonPoet:


https://twitter.com/NCDCgov/status/1251520977550348288?s=19

Frank5:

Please just take a look at the picture stat with global cases, stated there is 210 countries affected.
This shows the level of falsified information being used to educate Nigerians on this covid19 pandemic.
Nigeria why?