The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chike Ihekweazu has stated that the implications of the #EndSARS in connection to the Coronavirus pandemic will be felt across the country in two weeks time.
Ihekweazu who disclosed that the curfew imposed by state governments to halt the looting of warehouses and destruction of property have slowed down testing for COVID-19, added that they stopped posting of results on their social media handles out of respect for those who lost their lives as a result of the incidents of the past days.
The NCDC DG noted that the implications are not inevitable and also averred that Nigerians can still do their part to prevent them.
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He said;
“Forty to 60 per cent of our testing cases are reported from Lagos. Our labs in Lagos have not been able to perform as they normally would for the past two to three weeks.
“As we move into the next two weeks, it will not take a rocket scientist to know that we've to watch the numbers very carefully.
“The reasons are obvious; we've gathered in our masses for whatever reason and for now, we've to keep our eyes open for the potential implications. Those implications are not inevitable; we can still do our part to prevent them.
“We can't let down our guards; we can't afford to add this to the several challenges that we've. Several states have done well by raising their testing capacity. So, we must stay on the ball.”