{"id":32621,"date":"2020-11-19T19:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T19:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32621"},"modified":"2020-11-19T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T19:30:59","slug":"covid-19-we-are-not-experiencing-a-spike-in-nigeria-ncdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-we-are-not-experiencing-a-spike-in-nigeria-ncdc","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: We are not experiencing a spike in Nigeria \u2014 NCDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that Nigeria is not experiencing a spike in COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja while giving an update on the disease in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor over two months we fought between a hundred to two hundred cases a day\u2026 but we really haven\u2019t seen a spike in our national data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a recent increase in a few cases in Lagos, mostly among the younger people, younger populations, and we are monitoring that very closely,\u201d  Ihekweazu explained.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, NCDC has worked very hard to contain the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at our testing numbers, yes they have not gone up as high as we would have loved to, but apart from a small decrease during the peak of the demonstrations a few weeks ago, we have managed to maintain our testing numbers of about 30,000 tests per week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo generally, I would still say, we need to be cautious and continue with the preventive measures but we have not seen a spike in the country, \u201c he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Ihekweazu said that the announcement of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines against the COVID-19 gave Nigeria a significant \u201cray of hope\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, pointed out that many processes needed to be carried out on the two vaccines before they could be used.<\/p>\n<p>The NCDC boss said that the centre was also working to make sure that Nigerians fully understood the value of the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ihekweazu said that there was no case of COVID-19 outbreak in the various orientation camps of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).<\/p>\n<p>He explained that two cases were detected before the infected corps members got into the NYSC camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that Nigeria is not experiencing a spike in COVID-19 infections. The Director-General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja while giving an update on the disease in the country. \u201cFor over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,28,26],"tags":[1570,1624,1585,1425,254],"class_list":["post-32621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-chikwe-ihekweazu","tag-covid-19-2","tag-ncdc","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19: We are not experiencing a spike in Nigeria \u2014 NCDC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-we-are-not-experiencing-a-spike-in-nigeria-ncdc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19: We are not experiencing a spike in Nigeria \u2014 NCDC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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