Tackling the COVID-19 conundrum presents its own challenges in humongous dimensions. Already, the authorities are fast running out of space to continue to keep the bevy of patients that emerge daily.
Hence, hotels, schools, seized private properties and every available space are now being converted into isolation centres.
“There is a growing black market in rapid diagnostic test kits in Nigeria,” the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control , Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, raised the alarm at a press conference in Abuja. It is also bad that we do not have sufficient means of determining who has the virus or does not. That some crooked Nigerians have seen this as a means to play smart by selling fake test kits in the black market worsens matters. They have brought our culture of faking things to an intolerable level.
It doesn’t tell you if you have an active infection or not. Therefore, on its own, it is very difficult to use it to make a clinical decision.” Yet, the implacable coronavirus does not give any sign of abating soon, with casualties rising both globally and nationally.
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