The Director-General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Monday, resumed in his office after observing a 14-day self-isolation.
The isolation became necessary as a standard practice after his return from China where COVID 19 was first reported late in December 2019.The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said in a press briefing he addressed in Benin that the second confirmed case had contact with the index case in Ogun State.The Minister said, “We were honoured that one of the scientists that the World Health Organisation had chosen to go to China to study the disease was the DG of NCDC.
“They went there for nine days, during which they carried out investigations. But we have already established rules here that anybody who has been to China will go to self-quarantine. Chikwe has gone to China and come back and has done the test. “He is not allowed to come out until after 14 days, because if you make rules, you must also obey them, which is to set an example for Nigerians.”
Confirming the resumption to our correspondent in Abuja, a source at the NCDC said, “He resumed today after 14 days self-isolation.”
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