Nigeria now has three laboratories for Coronavirus test – Health minister
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, briefed State House correspondents after FEC meeting today at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.The minister said no person had contacted the virus in the country and Africa, saying the two cases tested so far were negative.He said, “Since about eight days ago, we obtained the reagents necessary; we have the machines; they are called Polymerase Chain Reaction machines which we have here for molecular diagnostics; but we didn’t have the reagents.
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