The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chike Ihekweazu, has said that the COVID-19 transmission would rise with the reopening of schools and airports.

He, therefore, warned against complacency and the belief that infection rates were declining.

Speaking on Monday during a media briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, the DG said only Lagos, Federal Capital Territory, Ogun and Kano states had been consistently carrying out a high volume of testing.

Specifically, Ihekweazu said testing rates had declined drastically in Taraba, Adamawa, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Kebbi, Zamfara, Jigawa and Yobe states.

The DG observed that Nigerians were not responding to the plea to come out for testing, adding that the testing needed to be sustained in order to combat the pandemic.

He added, “I am very confident about what is going on in Lagos, FCT, Ogun and probably Kano and a few other states. Having said that, it doesn’t mean they should let down their guards completely.

“In fact, with schools and airports opening, we have to increase the level of our testing because inevitably, there would be more transmission. So, how are you able to mitigate the impact of that moving forward, given that we have learnt so much about this virus in the last few months.”

Also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, called for more vigilance to forestall possible resurgence of the COVID-19 as schools resumed in some states across the country.

He warned that the appreciable progress recorded might be eroded, especially due to the opening of the airspaces to international travels, relaxation of a number of restrictions and opening up of more sectors of the economy.

The National Coordinator of the PTF, Dr Sani Aliyu, said Nigeria was performing below target in terms of tests for COVID-19, warning Nigerians against making the country to record a second wave of the pandemic.

According to him, people are avoiding the tests for various reasons, including payment, fear and stigma.

He, however, stated that the government had established and accreditedlaboratories where tests are done for free.

Aliyu said, “The PTF remains seriously concerned about the current low testing rate we have in the country. Nigerians are not getting tested for COVID-19 but we must test to track, in order to slow the spread of the virus even further and to stop any more preventable COVID-related death.”

Aliyu urged Nigerians to go for COVID-19 tests, which he said are free at 69 laboratories and centres across the country. According to him, a weekly assessment by the PTF had shown that more Nigerians have shown lack of interest in testing for the virus.

Source: https://punchng.com/only-lagos-kano-ogun-fct-still-conducting-covid-19-tests-ptf/

This PTF na thief . You guys want more allocation of funds to your useless testing so that una go embezzled the whole money.

I can't Understand this Covid-19 issues anymore

Dear PTF

Our lives has gone back to normal

COVID19 does not scares us again

Let our Tertiary institutions be reopened


Thanks

mtcheeeww
everyday waaaaa waaaaa on covid 19

open schools joor

Competition for looting..
Everybody wan ball at the expense of the virus..

Why do you want them to be wasting state resources when it's crystal clear that Covid19 has gone back to China?

Any state that wishes to continue to squander the taxpayer's resources on the guise of this pandemic should be held accountable

mtchewww scam covid19 for nigeria abeg make unah opend schools

We have moved on, PTF should move on too.

Coro sef don tire for Nigeria and moved back to the UK to inflict a second round of widespread infection.

Nigeria my country can never be frustrated; not by any yeye pandemic or by any useless politician.

They only want to loot

Abeg make una carry this una coronavirus comot jare

Nobody is scared of the shiiit anymore find anoda format if u want mak ur Machine dispense more cash..

if na by no testing we for don dey see plenty dead body for road side in kogi

Other states has moved on..

Hmm. Nice one Lagos



Pls don't forget to always do a DNA test on ur kids.. Women are not to be trusted...

Trust and women are alien to each other

Scamdemic

this people need beating,, truth to God

THANKING GOD FOR LIFE.

To God be the Glory,
We are gradually getting back to our world.
Our whole lives we have been watching like a movie for several months : the movie is about to come to an end!

You reading this should thank God for your life,
Because, Worldwide (as at the very minute of typing this) 31.3 million human beings like you were infected with the deadly virus and
965, 235 people have died!!!
But you are still here standing on your feet.
Eating, drinking, having fun with friends and families and eating Pepper soup and Barbecue
No be God?

But it is too soon to stop MASKING UP guys.
Keep up with that!

Once again, We are THANKING GOD FOR LIFE.......

It's us they can do gragra to, them sef don tire, awon alabosi

Mofos

Ok

Yesterday just 2 death was recorded due to covid 19 in the whole of Nigeria with 200million population

We can afford to keep pumping money to testing that cost thousands of naira, or lock down economy and keep people out of job

When a strong wave of Pandemic resurfaces and people actually start getting sick and dying in mass we can now resume the panic



.

So how will you explain the daily increase in figures in Plateau State? they just wake up one morning feel unwell and go to isolation centre, got admitted and gboom another figure added to that daily record?

don't mind them.. they're just using me to make money

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We are getting to the end

,,,u still dey breath

when people were busy shouting that this covid case in Nigeria is more of scam than reality, I was one of those who was seriously doubting. If covid-19 was really spreading the way they made it seemed by now Nigeria should have recorded the highest death rate in the world, because in the whole saga we were left to fend for ourselves.

Ok