New COVID-19 Variants Not Cause For Concern – Chikwe Ihekweazu, NCDC DG
Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu, says the new variants or strains of the COVID-19 virus in the country are not a cause for concern because viruses mutate all the time.
He said they could only be of concern when the new variants or strains are associated with increased transmission.
He stated this Thursday during the World Health Organisation’s online news briefing on the latest COVID-19 developments on the continent.
He said Nigeria had not announced new variants so far because there had been no increased transmission and morbidity.
Ihekweazu said the Nigerian authorities had also ramped up production of oxygen and brought in the private sector .
WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, said it was important for countries...