The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it’s setting up another COVID-19 testing laboratory in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
The NCDC which announced this in a Facebook post on Sunday morning also disclosed that it had expanded its testing capacity six in the country.
“We have expanded the number of labs with the capacity to test for #COVID19 to 6 with the inclusion of the Virology Laboratory of University College Hospital, Ibadan
Today, we will be in Abakaliki to set up another lab as we quickly ramp up #COVID19 testing capacity in Nigeria,” the NCDC said
The six testing centres in Nigeria include; The African Centre for Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Osun State; University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos; and NCDC National Reference Laboratory, Gaduwa, Abuja.
Others are; Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State and Nigeria Institute for Medical research, Lagos.
The Abakaliki Centre will be the seventh in Nigeria.
