The Federal Government announced that it now has evidence of community transmission of coronavirus in the country, saying over 9,000 persons of interest have been traced.
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, made the news of community infection known at a briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 in Abuja.
He also stressed the need for Nigerians to continue to obey all containment protocols put in place by the federal and sub-national governments, even as the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, asked Commissioners of Police and Assistant Inspectors-General of Police not to allow criminals take advantage of lockdown in some parts of the country.
On his part, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, noted that Monday’s Presidential broadcast addressed several critical issues of concern to Nigeria’s survival as a nation.
Also the Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Chikwe Iheakwazu, said the agency’s aim was to increase its daily testing capacity to 4,000 but noted that the current challenge was not with testing but with the collection of samples.
