The Cross River State government has said it would quarantine for 14 days the staff of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) expected in the state
The Cross River State government has said it would quarantine for 14 days the staff of theBetta Edu, the commissioner for Health and chairman of the state COVID-19 taskforce team, said this on Wednesday in Calabar.“As a state, we have shut down borders and all land entrances to prevent the spread of the virus. It is not compulsory that all states will be affected,” she said.
Cross River is among the three states in the country yet to record a case of coronavirus, as of April 28. The other two are Kogi and Yobe states. She said they were interested in testing any suspected case of COVID-19 that meets the NCDC requirements. “We don’t need a ventilator at this moment, what we want is test kit to help get more samples for laboratory analysis.
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