The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Tuesday disclosed that the country currently carries out between 3,000 and 6,000 daily COVID-19 tests.
He said, “We have a national capacity to test somewhere close to 15,000 tests per day. We’re however doing between 3,000 and 5,000 and maybe 6,000 at most. So, that is what we are doing and we are testing about 40 percent of what we have the capacity to test for. “How we have gotten to 64 laboratories is that we have gone across the country and wherever we see some minimum capacity, we have worked with them to quickly upgrade what they have in order to get them to the level of testing – whether it’s in a university, in a state hospital, in a federal teaching hospital.”Concerning faster ways of testing for COVID-19, like the saliva testing, the NCDC boss said, “Development of new diagnostics has been a little bit slow.