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By David Royal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday afternoon announced that 12 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country. In a tweet on its verified account, it said  “Twelve new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Nigeria; 9 in Osun, 2 in Edo and 1 in Ekiti State […]

By Sola Ogundipe The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has launched a WhatsApp service to engage Nigerians on how to curtail the spread of coronavirus, COVID-19, in the country. Announcing the development in a tweet on Sunday, the health agency explained that the new platform allows for a two-way engagement on the WhatsApp platform […]

…Provides NCDC with 4G enabled smartphones, sims and data nTel, Nigeria’s first 4G/VoLTE Network recently donated a wide array of communication supplies to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC to assist the agency’s quest to effectively contain the coronavirus pandemic spread across the country. The items presented for donation include 4G enabled sim packs, […]

By David Royal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC on Tuesday evening announced that four more new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Nigeria. In a tweet on its verified handle, the centre said “Four new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria; 3 in the FCT and 1 in Lagos As […]

Victor Ogunyinka For the second time in eight hours, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced four more cases of coronavirus bringing the total number of people living with the disease in Nigeria to 138. As at 08:00 pm 31st March there are 139 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Nine have […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is set to increase its capacity to test for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) to 1500 per day in the country.

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Tuesday the centre would increase its capacity to test for the coronavirus to 1500 per day in the country. Ihekweazu stated this at the Presidential Taskforce Briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja. He said the focus of NCDC  efforts was to […]

By Rasheed Sobowale The Director General (DG) of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Tuesday, during a Presidential Task Force Briefing on the COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Abuja revealed that Nigeria has been testing about 500 suspected cases of the virus per day. Dr Ihekweazu answering the questions fielded by journalists […]

Victor Ogunyinka The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced four new cases of coronavirus across Nigeria. The latest report released at 11:15 am Tuesday, revealed three of the four cases are from Osun State and one from Ogun State. This brings the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases to 135. This came just […]