January will be tough, spike in COVID-19 infections imminent – NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said that the nation’s health system is struggling to cope with the increasing number of coronavirus infections daily.

The centre warned that the nation would pay in January for disregarding the health protocols.

Speaking at the  briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Tuesday, the Director-General, NCDC, Dr Chikwe Iheakwazu said, “We just faced the worst week since we started responding to this outbreak. We had more cases in Nigeria last week than in any other previous week since the beginning of the outbreak.

749 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-299
Plateau-131
Kaduna-83
FCT-74
Kwara-35
Sokoto-26
Edo-18
Kano-17
Katsina-16
Delta-11
Nasarawa-10
Ondo-9
Bauchi-9
Rivers-5
Akwa Ibom-3
Jigawa-1
Osun-1
Ekiti-1

85,560 confirmed
71,937 discharged
1,267 deaths pic.twitter.com/fWlJdFbFdj

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) December 29, 2020

“Pictures and videos from across the country paint a very disheartening situation because it appears that our messages, our appeals to Nigerians over the last few months have not been heeded and we have gone ahead with business as usual.

“Events centres are full, social activities are full and so it is no surprises that cases are rising.

“January will be a tough month, no doubt about it. So, we have to brace ourselves for the consequences of the activities that we have decided to carry out in December.”