by By Elijah Ugani – Calabar
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has stated that Nigeria is approaching a difficult era in response to the outbreak of corona virus disease.
The minister gave the explanation at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) daily briefing on COVID19.
Ehanire noted that as the COVID-19 pandemic increases and progress to community transmission level in Nigeria, health ministry and other relevant government agencies were continuously seeking measures to check or break the transmission of the pandemic.
Speaking further, he held that the target was to identify all positive cases and isolate both the symptomatic and asymptomatic to safeguard the health of the rest of the population as well as provide care to the symptomatic.
Ehanire posited that the ministry “is continuously monitoring and reviewing the situation and responding with the dispatch of teams of experts to provide technical support to high burden areas or states grappling with epidemic control issues”
