Posted on: Mon 13-04-2020

President Buhari has extended the lockdown in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State by another 14 days effective 11:59pm on Monday 14 April 2020

 

In his address to the nation, President Buhari noted that we must not lose the gains achieved thus far. We must not allow a rapid increase in community transmission. We must endure a little longer.

 

As a result of the overwhelming support & cooperation received, we were able to achieve a lot during these 14 days of initial lockdown. We implemented comprehensive public health measures that intensified our case identification, testing, isolation & contact tracing capabilities.

 

To date, we have identified 92% of all identified contacts while doubling the number of testing laboratories in the country and raising our testing capacity to 1,500 tests per day.

 

We also trained over 7,000 healthcare workers on infection prevention and control, while deploying NCDC teams to 19 states of the federation.

 

Already, health care workers across all the treatment centers have been provided with the personal protective equipment that they need to safely carry out the care they provide.

 

At this point, I must recognise the incredible work being done by our healthcare workers and volunteers across the country especially in frontline areas of Lagos and Ogun States as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). You are our heroes and as a nation, we will forever remain grateful for your sacrifice during this very difficult time. More measures to motivate our health care workers are being introduced which we will announce in the coming weeks. I will also ask our health care professionals to redouble their efforts to identify all suspected cases, bring them into care and prevent transmission to others.

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