“The testing has helped a lot because, for the first time, the government is getting the demographic spread of the pandemic in the state.” Nigeria KadunaState MobileLaboratory Coronavirus
Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai, who made this known on Thursday in Kaduna, said the laboratory, earlier donated by USAID for tuberculosis test, was deployed to the communities for COVID-19 test and the effort had yielded result.
“There is a 16 per cent rate of infection in the communities that have been tested. The high-risk areas are the border communities with neighbouring states that have large cases of the pandemic El-Rufai advised residents to adhere to the preventive measures as young people could have the disease without showing symptoms and could transmit it to their parents and older people which might lead to death.
He said that the X-ray unit was for pathology test to determine tuberculosis and other lung-related diseases while the other unit was for COVID-19 test.
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