The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says that the low number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the country is due to a lesser number of samples collected across the states.
The Director General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said this on Thursday in Abuja during the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing.Ihekweazu, who was represented by NCDC Head of Surveillance and Epidemiology Department, Mrs Elsie Ilori, said that the testing labs were underutilized because the states were not collecting enough samples for the laboratory to test.
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