The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control says that over 6,000 persons who have had contacts with the 111 confirmed Coronavirus cases in the country are being traced.
The Director-General of the agency, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, revealed this on Monday during his appearance on Channels Television breakfast show, Sunrise Daily.
He said, “These few weeks will help our teams, the Lagos State team to have access to the contacts that are living around Lagos and FCT. We are following over 6,000 contacts of these 111 confirmed cases across these two cities.”
“Every time we have a new case, we add about 50 to 60 contacts that we then have to follow every single day for 14 days.
“We can’t do this if we don’t have access to these cases, so this is really one of the reasons why Mr President took this very difficult decision,” Ihekweazu added.
The NCDC boss also backed the order of the President on the restriction of movements in Lagos and Abuja.
“It is not just to stop movement, it is to enable us and our team, Lagos State team, FCT team to reach the contacts, keep them at home, make sure they are supported and see whether we can really use this time to buy some time to get ahead of the case and ultimately, we will see that curve start going down,” the NCDC boss said.
