We’ve Made Progress With COVID-19 Public Health Response – NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said
that progress has been made in responding to the public health on
the COVID-19 pandemic.

NCDC Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this on
Thursday while presenting the agency’s 2021 proposal to the Senate
Committee on presented Primary Healthcare and Communicable
Diseases.

“We’ve made progress with our #COVID19 public health response
& need substantial & stable funding for sustainable health
security capacity,” he said.

“Today, we @NCDCgov 2020 budget performance & 2021 proposal
to @NGRSenate Committee on presented Primary Healthcare &
Communicable Diseases.”

Today, we presented @NCDCgov 2020 budget
performance & 2021 proposal to @NGRSenate Committee on Primary
Healthcare & Communicable Diseases

We’ve made progress with our #COVID19 public health response
& need substantial & stable funding for sustainable health
security capacity pic.twitter.com/Vjcdd7q8tH

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— Chikwe Ihekweazu (@Chikwe_I) November 12, 2020

Nigeria’s confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country have continued
to increase following the report of 212 more infections.

On November 13, the new cases were reported from 16 states and
the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the last 24 hours.

The government agency in charge of the control of disease
outbreak – Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this
via its Twitter handle on Thursday night.

Of the new cases, Lagos has the highest – reporting 71 fresh
infections, followed by Imo and Plateau States where 26 cases were
confirmed respectively.

Others are FCT – 19, Ondo – 17, Kaduna – 14, Rivers – nine, Oyo
– nine, Katsina – six, and Osun – four cases.

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