The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that the new COVID-19 drug, Dexamethasone has not been approved for use in the treatment of patients with the viral disease in Nigeria. The drug, which scientists in the United Kingdom have hailed as a major breakthrough, is a widely used low-dose steroid which has been found to considerably reduce the risk of patients dying from COVID-19. The NCDC in a series of Tweets posted on Tuesday night, June 16 said …
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The Director-General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, today revealed that not less than 812 health workers have been infected with the COVID-19 virus in the line of duty. He made this known while speaking at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, in Abuja today June 2. According to Ihekweazu, 29 of the 812 infected health workers are members of staff of the NCDC. “Crossing the 10,000 mark was …
A Nigerian nurse has lashed out at a Twitter user who said Coronavirus is not real and also accused the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) of padding numbers. @AdaErema said she saw the tweet after witnessing the death of two Coronavirus patients at an intensive care unit and also seeing the corpse of two other Coronavirus patients. She tweeted; We lost two patients in the ICU today to covid-19. On wheeling the corpses to the ambulance, …
The war of words between the Kogi state government and the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, continued today with the state Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, asking the agency to stop ”defrauding” Nigerians with the Coronavirus pandemic. Speaking on Channels Television this evening, Fanwo accused the agency of fraud. According to him, the NCDC has an agenda to spread COVID-19 to all the states in the Federation ” NCDC should stop defrauding this country. I am not one …
Chikwe Ihekweazu, the Director-General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, has reacted following Kogi state government’s dismissal of the two COVID19 cases that the NCDC recorded against the state on Wednesday, May 27 The NCDC in the results released on Wednesday night, announced that Kogi state which hitherto had no confirmed case, now has two cases. The state Commissioner for Health, Saka Haruna-Audu, in a statement released this morning, dismissed the results, saying the state has conducted hundreds of tests …
Senator Shehu Sani took to Twitter to subtly question the authenticity of COVID-19 claims made by the NCDC. The Nigerian Senator tweeted: “They will say they are short of bed spaces for #Covid-19 patients and they will never show you hundred people in a ward at a time.” He said this after Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, said that a good number of Covid-19 patients in Nigeria are not in isolation centres because the …