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COVID-19: Nigeria gets 3 additional testing labs

Admin June 9, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced the activation of 3 new labs for inclusion in the NCDC Molecular Lab Network

Following the addition of the 3 new labs in Ibadan (Biorepository & Clinical Virology Lab UCH, Ibadan); Akwa Ibom (Molecular Diagnostics Lab, Infectious Disease Unit, General Hospital, Ituk Mkpang); and Jigawa (Jigawa State Molecular Lab, Dutse), this brings the total number of labs with capacity to test for #COVID19 in Nigeria to 33

The NCDC however noted that 4 other labs are in progress in: Kwara, Gombe, Ekiti, Ondo and Abia

Workers in one of the newly activated labs

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