Yesterday, His Excellency President @MBuhari said “The public health response to COVID-19 is built on our ability to detect, test & admit cases as well as trace all their contacts. While I note some appreciable progress, we can achieve more”

A charge for us @NCDCgov & all states

We have begun to focus critically on the 2nd & 3rd components of our case definition to test more people with:

Fever & respiratory tract symptoms in a contact

Fever & respiratory tract symptoms of unknown cause

This is our main focus this week. Our labs are ready for this

The target is to test 2000 samples in Lagos, 1000 in Abuja and in the rest of the country daily, of the RIGHT people who meet the case definition.

We’re expanding our labs, have provided states with sample collection kits and developing innovative methods to ensure testing

Our laboratories are ready and have the capacity to test. We must all push harder than we have.

The responsibility lies with the government as well as with citizens. We can pull through if we stay together

#TakeResponsibility