NCDC: We’ve Traced 91 Percent Contacts of COVID-19 Patients

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The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, says 91 percent of confirmed contacts of COVID-19 patients have been identified.

Speaking at the media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 today, Ihekweazu said as at April 9, the centre had been able to track a good number of the contacts.

“We can confirm that we know and are following up 91 percent, as at yesterday, of all the contacts of all the confirmed cases,” he said.

“So, as at yesterday, we had identified and are following up, every day, 91 percent of all the contacts of confirmed cases that were confirmed up till the end of yesterday.

“We are seeing some early indication of a community transmission. That is why the last time I presented these figures, for about 30 percent of patients, we haven’t quite figured out from whom they got that infection. That is an early indicator of community spread, and we are working extremely hard right now. That’s the purpose of the lockdown.”