No state is COVID-19 free- NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has declared that no state in the country can claim to be COVID-19 free.
He said: “Concerning some States declaring themselves covid-19 free, because they were discharging patients, I will like to say no single state in Nigeria is COVID-19 free, not one. “We can only start talking about any state or community being disease free when we have an effective tool to fight that disease. That will come when we have a vaccine. Until then, there is no easy way to say this. We have to keep pushing on these preventive measures and we have to develop our laboratory capacity to test.
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