The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has disclosed that they are looking for about 6,000 people who had contacts with COVID-19 patients in Lagos and Abuja.
The NCDC boss said so far, 2,000 people had been tested for coronavirus nationwide; a figure which experts described as grossly inadequate compared to Nigeria's 200 million population.
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