NCDC says it has identified 91% of Covid-19 patients contacts, confirms 17 new cases

By our reporter| The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Friday said that 91 percent of confirmed contacts of COVID-19 patients have been identified.

The director-general of the health agency, Chikwe Ihekweazu, who made the disclosure at a media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 in Abuja, said as of April 9, the centre had been able to track a good number of the 6,000 contacts it started tracing in March.

He said, “We can confirm that we know and are following up 91 percent, as at yesterday, of all the contacts of all the confirmed cases.”

“So, as at yesterday, we had identified and are following up, every day, 91 percent of all the contacts of confirmed cases that were confirmed up till the end of yesterday.

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“We are seeing some early indication of a community transmission. That is why the last time I presented these figures, for about 30 percent of patients, we haven’t quite figured out from whom they got that infection. That is an early indicator of community spread, and we are working extremely hard right now. That’s the purpose of the lockdown.”

According to Ihekweazu, the lockdown would allow the NCDC teams have access to the contacts that reside around the areas affected by the lockdown. Any time a new case is recorded, about 50 to 60 contacts have to be followed every single day for 14 days.

Nigeria, Meanwhile, recorded seventeen new cases of Coronavirus on Friday, bringing to 305 the total number of infections in the country.

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According to the Nigeria Centre For Disaese Control, the new cases were recorded in Lagos, Katsina. FCT, Niger, Kaduna, Anambra and Ondo.

The health agency said, ”Seventeen new cases of #COVID19 have been reported as follows:

8 in Lagos
3 in Katsina
2 in FCT
1 in Niger
1 in Kaduna
1 in Anambra
1 in Ondo

”As at 09:30 pm 10th April, there are 305 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 58 have been discharged with 7 deaths”.

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