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COVID-19 We’ve Identified 10 Cases Of Delta Variant – NCDC

COVID-19: We’ve Identified 10 Cases Of Delta Variant – NCDC

July 27, 2021 2:06 am

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has revealed that the Delta variant cases of COVID-19 have so far been identified in the country.

The Director-General of the organisation, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made this disclosure during the health minister’s update on the COVID-19 pandemic in Abuja on Monday.

According to him, ‘So far we have identified 10 delta variant cases in the country. Actually what we do is collect samples from the travelers. Most of the cases are from travellers coming into Lagos and Abuja. Once they come in, we collect samples.

‘The symptoms that it possesses are not …

Monkeypox Panic As NCDC Registers 15 New Cases

Monkeypox: Panic As NCDC Registers 15 New Cases

July 21, 2021 1:29 am

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Tuesday in Abuja revealed that 59 suspected cases and 15 confirmed cases of Monkeypox have been registered by the agency.

Ihekweazu made this disclosure while reacting to the reports of a Dallas, Texas resident who recently returned from Nigeria and tested positive to the disease.

It was the first confirmed case of the virus in the U.S. since 2003, with health officials saying that the public should not be perturbed.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that laboratory tests confirmed that the patient was infected with …

Only Lagos, Kano, FCT Still Conducting COVID-19 Tests – PTF

Only Lagos, Kano, FCT Still Conducting COVID-19 Tests – PTF

September 22, 2020 6:40 am

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 …

NCDC Declared Me Positive With No Result – Dokpesi

NCDC Declared Me Positive With No Result – Dokpesi

May 16, 2020 6:06 am

The Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Junior, has lamented that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, never gave him the result showing he tested positive to COVID-19.

Junior, who is the son to DAAR Communications Plc founder, Raymond Dokpesi, expressed disappointment that he was not given any documentary evidence to show he was positive and when he tested negative to the virus.

He made the disclosure while recounting his sojourn and that of his father in an isolation centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja.

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Addressing reporters at

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We Are Worried Over No Confirmed Case In Imo – NCDC DG

We Are Worried Over No Confirmed Case In Imo – NCDC DG

April 20, 2020 6:51 am

The Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, has expressed worry that no case of Coronavirus has been recorded in Imo State.

Ihekweazu wondered why the state has not recorded a case despite that Imo people travel a lot.

He spoke during a visit to the State Governor, Hope Uzodinma at the Government House in Owerri, the State capital, over the weekend.

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The NCDC boss stated that people of the state risk importing the virus into the state because they travel a lot.

He said: “Your Excellency, the

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