75 percent of the patients contracted Covid-19 through unknown sources, 23 percent of patients through contact with people who returned from abroad65,000 samples tested so far by NigeriaFg to deploy Gene Xpert machines to Federal Medical Center Lokoja, University of Calabar Teaching HospitalAbout 812 Healthcare workers have been infected with the coronavirus disease. Crossing 10,000 number of infected persons is a significant event, these are people, each number represents an individual with a family. Keep pushing to test more in order to establish where we are in the outbreak so as to strengthen national response”. He said, I announced that Nigeria will participate in the COVID-19 drug trial, which the WHO was leading but partly suspended. It underscores the need for more risk communication, community engagement and diligence in the disposal of used PPEs on the part of our frontline workers and the administrators.

Source: The Guardian June 02, 2020 19:18 UTC