“We have quickly turned around the tide and the health workers in isolation discharged.”
Dr Tijjani Hussaini, the Coordinator, COVID-19 Technical Response Team, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria , on Wednesday in Kano.
“Ten more sample collection centres will soon be put in place, bringing the number to 19 in the state. He said that the Dangote Foundation and ’54gene’ donated a mobile laboratory at the Muhammadu Buhari Hospital, Giginyu. The coordinator added that the state government had trained health workers on Infection, Prevention and Control , to protect them against contracting the disease.
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