Covid-19: 6,700 contacts identified, Jack Ma kits under validation -NCDC

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu announced that the centre has identified about 6,700 contacts exposed to covid-19 cases cumulatively.

“Some of them have graduated out; when you follow a contact for 14 days and he does not become ill, we graduate the case out of the contact list. As of yesterday (Thursday), we have followed up on 71 per cent of that,” he said.

Ihekweazu also noted that the test kits donated by Chinese billionaire, Jack Ma, had yet to be used because they were being validated. He said this on the backdrop of insinuation that some Chinese kits were faulty.

He noted, “We will never deploy a test kit until we validate it. That process is ongoing. We are still using the kits we had before the donation from Jack Ma came in.

“Once we are sure that they (the kits) will provide answers equivalent to the test case we have, then we will deploy them.”