Posted on: Fri 21-08-2020

States in Nigeria are to engage officials of the Nigeria Asso­ciation of Resident Doctors (NARD) in order to forestall their planned industrial ac­tion, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum ((NGF) has said.

The NGF also confirmed that 32 states in the country now have molecular labo­ratories while investments were being directed to the remaining four states in the effort to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a communiqué issued Thursday morning after the 15th teleconference meeting of the forum, which held on Wednesday, August 19, 2020, the governors also said that 29 states had received funding from the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems En­hancement (REDISSE) proj­ect to strengthen their public health response to COVID-19.

The communiqué, which was signed by Kayode Fayemi, chairman of the NGF, noted that data from COVID-19 tests conducted in the country show that 20 local government areas in the country account for 50 percent of the COVID-19 cases recorded, adding that testing remains the number one priority for the govern­ment.

Fayemi said the Forum resolved to scale up the im­plementation of the Risk Communications Communi­ty Engagement (RCCE) strat­egy developed by the Presi­dential Task on COVID-19 as campaigns in state and local structures.

Source: independent

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