The federal government has explained why Nigeria has been having
low figures reported in the daily coronavirus infection update in
recent times.
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr.
Boss Mustapha, who addressed the issue on Wednesday, noted
that the low cases are because testing has dropped.
He added that most workers didn’t go to work as a result of the
Sallah holiday declared by the federal government and testing
reduced.
Speaking further, the SGF noted that the trend is expected to
change as people return to work and testing resumes.
He stated this while addressing state house correspondents after
the presidential task force on COVID-19 presented its
report to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Villa
in Abuja.
The current phase of the eased lockdown was announced on Monday,
July 27 and after the committee submitted its report to the
president on Wednesday, Mr. Mustapha disclosed that he will be able
to speak on the next line of action on Thursday after receiving
directives from President Buhari.
As for the content of the report, it will be premature for
me to talk about it because we submitted a report, we have
submitted recommendations and so we have to leave for Mr President
to take a decision.
“By the time I receive his approvals, non-approvals on the
recommendations we have made, we will be able to speak to the
Nigerian people tomorrow (Thursday),” he explained.
The SGF added, “If you noticed, as we celebrated those
discharges, there has also been a decrease in the testing.
In the last couple of days, we tested just barely 2,000
across the nation, but we have a testing capacity of much more
thousands than 2,000.
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“Another reason is that everybody is still in Sallah mood,
even the essential workers. Remember when I talked of fatigue, this
is part of it.
“But I know that in the next couple of days, the testing
will be rampant because people would have come out of the Sallah
celebrations and come back to work.
The sub nationals and local governments will begin to go
into the communities to search because this is the point at which
you have to go into the local communities and begin to
search.
“If you don’t do that, so much is happening as a result of
the community transmission that has been cascaded into the local
communities that if you wait for it to present itself, it will
present itself in a very explosive manner and we can get into a
panic mode.
“We don’t want to have that. That is why are encouraging the
state governments to go into the local communities to ensure that
they search for those infected with this virus, test them, if they
are positive, isolate them and provide care for them.”
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