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*10 persons test positive for Delta variant at Lagos, Abuja airportsThe federal government has directed all COVID-19 Isolation Centres across the country to immediately activate their facilities in anticipation of a possible spike in infection. Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, gave the directive yesterday in Abuja at a media briefing on COVID-19 update.
Ehanire disclosed that in the past 24 hours, the world had witnessed an increase in reported cases of the virus across a significant number of countries, due to the high transmissibility of the Delta Variant. He said there was a rising incidence of COVID-19 in the country, adding that treatment bed occupancy is also recording an increase given the established emergence of a third wave.
He regretted that despite the evidence of the emergence of a third wave of the pandemic, citizens continued to refuse adherence to public health advisories. The minister allayed fears over the recent donation of Sinopharm COVID19 vaccine by the Chinese government, saying the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has been asked to subject the vaccine to regulatory test for the needed approval.
Earlier, the minister said the country had stop vaccination in July 10, because it ran out of vaccine doses.
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