The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday spoke about various test kits said to be in use in Nigeria for the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially antibody-based test kits. He was speaking in Abuja during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.

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The minister said all the four kits had been evaluated by the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria and that they all failed the validation tests. He said that no antigen test kits had yet been evaluated and “this means that results obtained from these tests are not tenable for diagnostics, being deficient in sensitivity and specificity and are likely to give false results and mislead people.

“The NCDC certified laboratories in Nigeria use WHO recognized PCR testing methods which give reliable result. “Though expensive, this option is right and we have 30 laboratories deployed, with the aim of establishing at least one laboratory in every state.” He said that despite the rising cases of COVID-19 in the country, comparing the figures with those of other countries would be a great mistake.

He said that Nigeria currently had a total of 11,166 confirmed COVID-19 cases in 35 states and FCT out of which 3,329 had been treated successfully and discharged, while there were 315 sadly recorded deaths.

“The daily epidemic curve of confirmed cases shows a consistently rising trajectory with a corresponding increase in fatalities, but nothing compared with what is observed in some foreign countries. “To rest on our oars for that reason, would be a serious mistake.

“COVID-19 is real and we have explained that the increase in cases is due to improving testing capacity and of activities of other response pillars, such as surveillance, community mobilization, coordination, contact tracing improved awareness, demographics and other factors,” Ehanire said.

He also said that the Federal Ministry of Health team to Kano, Sokoto, Jigawa, Borno, Katsina and Gombe States would submit their final report on today and that preliminary reports showed that the goals of the intervention were met.

Source: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/anti-body-test-kits-failed-validation-fg.html

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I'm sure, they went and purchased inferior products.....


You can never trust Nigerians.....Always cutting corners.....

Hmmm .... months after we are still stuck with fake test kits and low test rates.

In before they say you're lying

the four kits had been evaluated by the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria and that they all failed the validation tests.

This is serious..

Now that explains the 50,000 confirmed cases
Ineptitudeness everywhere

Please I want to ask, is this coronavirus same as this malaria and typhoid looming around almost all homes in Nigeria? Cos I'm not understanding anything again!

Please I don't know but COVID experts in the house, is this supposed to be good news or bad news?

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Interesting

Hopefully, we will have a rapid diagnostic test kit that will be both specific and sensitive for COVID -19 so as to reduce the turn around time it takes with the PCR testing method.

Fake things everywhere. Nigeria I hail ooo

Only God can save us... nobody to trust again, US, UK, China even WHO has fail us....

Let's stick to our virus isolation technique then

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Abi you guys have been testing Innocent citizens with the so called faulty Antibody test kits? ...

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I don't Trust this Covid-19 Task force, they just want to Cash out more with no Obstacle

Everything has failed

The best Should be used .Human lives should not be played with .

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I'm sure, they went and purchased an inferior products.....

You can never trust Nigerians.....Always cutting corners.....

The products probably aren't inferior...it's more like people were rushing out products because of the pandemic and the high death rate .

And as a result normal proccesses were ignored or hurried through.

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