NCDC Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, has been appointed as the World Health Organisation’s assistant director-general of Health Emergency Intelligence.
As states struggle to curb the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, Nigeria is now averaging more than 700 new cases, says the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
The country’s death toll stood at 2,027 as of March 19, 2021.
The agency also registered 13 additional COVID-19-related deaths as of Monday night.
27 of the 420 returnees were children while 393 were adults.
“We are currently scaling up on genomic surveillance, working very closely with ACEGID.”
Nigeria’s active COVID-19 cases in the isolation centres stood at 24,317 as of January 29.
Efforts to speak with the Commissioner for Health in Lagos, Prof. Akin Abayomi, were unsuccessful.
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The Chinese-run firm was closed after senior officials who tested positive to COVID-19 were still coming to work despite knowing their contagious status.
The disease control office said the new infections were recorded in 23 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
