The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu disclosed that Nigeria has not gotten to its peak yet, and will not anytime soon, due to the increasing number of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease.
“From our projection, we are not near the peak yet; we still have a number of weeks to go.
Dr. Ihekweazu explained the measures the agency is deploying to ensure the nation’s health system does not get overwhelmed by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the spread of the virus does not get out of hand, despite being over-stretched.
“At the moment and from what we know, we will not be able to radically stop in a day or two, or even a few weeks but what we are trying to do is really to stretch out that curve so that the health system can cope with the number of cases coming in.
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More so, He mentioned that the limiting factors making the transmission of coronavirus possible in the country, is completely outside the control of the health sector.
“Of course, we are over-stretched … but we will not stop because we really don’t have an option NCDC boss admitted.
While mentioning that the Agency has to team up with State Government to tackle this pandemic, he said “Transmission is actually picking up in certain states and what we are trying to do, working with the Governors’ Forum and across the sector, is seeing what extra measures we can put in place over the next few days or which we can propose to the leadership of the country to put in place over the next few days that will mitigate the spread of this infection.”
