No state in Nigeria is COVID-19 free - NCDC
Afnews Editor
Jun 22, 2020
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared that no state in the country is COVID-19 free.
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This was announced by NCDC's Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, while speaking at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Monday.
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Ihekweazu noted that a state can only talk about being Coronavirus free, when it is testing adequately.
"No state in Nigeria is COVID-19 free. No country in the world is COVID-19 free.
"We can only talk about a state being disease free when we have an effective tool to fight the disease. That will come when we have a vaccine.
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"Until then, there is no easy way to say this. We have to keep pushing for these preventive measures. We have to develop our laboratory capability to test,ÔÇØ he said.
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Cross River is the only state in Nigeria, where any case of COVID-19 has not been officially confirmed in the country.
There are currently 20,244 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria.
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Lagos has the highest number with 8,576. Abuja (FCT) and Kano have 1,567 and 1,190 cases respectively.
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