The Presidential task force on COVID-19 says it is now working under a revised directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to rapidly expand testing to quickly, identify, isolate and treat confirmed cases of the Coronavirus.
The number of confirmed cases currently reflects an insufficient progress in testing.
Health authorities say they now plan to test two million Nigerians in three months.
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu says more financial and material resources will be required to quickly flatten the curve of transmission.
He said the cost of carrying out one COVID-19 test is about eighteen dollars.
He also recently disclosed that more than eleven thousand tests have been conducted across the country.
Despite all these, the co-ordination of the government’s response plan remains a priority for the presidential taskforce, especially the situation in Kano which continues to draw much attention.
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