COVID-19 cases will continue to increase in Nigeria — NCDC boss

As Nigeria fights the unwavering COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, Director General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, gives understanding into what's in store in the weeks to come. See portions of the meeting, led by YUSUFF MOSHOOD through the email 

With the pace of COVID-19 contamination, what is your projection on when we are probably going to arrive at our pinnacle and how arranged would we say we are for it? 

There are different projections that have been created, in view of different settings. With the expanding ability to discover and test more cases, we will keep on observing an expansion in cases in the following barely any months. 

Our system is to test rapidly, identify affirmed cases, disconnect and oversee cases to recuperation and catch up with contacts to diminish the danger of spread. Without an antibody for this infection, we should keep on sticking carefully to mandates from the Federal Government on non-pharmaceutical mediations, for example, conclusion of huge social affairs and physical removing. By doing these, we have a superior possibility of diminishing the danger of spread of this malady rapidly. 

In getting ready for the expansion in cases, we are working intimately with state governments to quickly scale up the limit in treatment focuses. 

We have additionally started the audit of conventions and direction for home administration of asymptomatic cases. This will be executed when required. We have scaled up our example assortment and transportation just as testing ability to guarantee that cases are tried inside the most brief conceivable time. 

We are working intimately with different Ministries and Agencies, including the Federal Ministry of Information, to guarantee that Nigerians are completely mindful of the dangers and have checked data for dynamic. 

As of late, you said NCDC has initiated utilization of COBAS framework for testing 960 COVID-19 cases in eight hours. For what reason would we say we are not considering a COBAS framework with higher testing limit, similar to the COBAS 8800 variant which is equipped for testing 4,128 cases every day? 

We as of late distributed the national technique on testing COVID-19, which subtleties a five-prong approach for inclining up the national day by day testing limit. The record, which can be gotten to on the web, contains a rundown of the throughput machines right now accessible in-nation, including five COBAS 8800 machines. 

We are buckling down and utilizing first on current limit in nation. We will keep on growing this, yet perceive progressing troubles in the worldwide flexibly chain for lab and clinical supplies