Nigeria Struggling at the Moment to Contain COVID-19 – NCDC DG

The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said the country is currently struggling in curbing the spread of COVID-19.

Ihekweazu who disclosed this on Thursday during the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 daily briefing in Abuja said there are no adequate bed spaces in isolation centres in the country to accommodate COVID-19 patients.

“In response to the question about bed spaces. There is no doubt about that, we are struggling in certain places especially in Lagos. To an extent Kano and Abuja too but the biggest challenge right now is in Lagos where bad spaces are really tight.

“Across the country, we have about 3, 500 bed spaces identified as available for COVID-19 but in Lagos, we are really struggling. So, we are going to keep trying to work with them to make more spaces available and ultimately.

“We will always be honest with Nigerians, we are struggling at the moment we might have to adapt that strategy because of the reality we have faced over the next few days and weeks” he stated.