NCDC accredits a covid19 center in Kwara State.

Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq (Governor, Kwara State)

The Executive Governor of Kwara State, His Excellency Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has confirmed that the state now has an accredited testing center for Covid-19.

Abdulrazaq made this announcement through his official Twitter handle.
His tweets;
Kwara State now has a test center for COVID-19 that is certified by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The center is at GeneXpert laboratory, Sobi Specialist Hospital.
We made efforts to upgrade this center so as to quicken COVID-19 testing for our people.

He further tweeted that it will also enable our health officials make prompt decision on whether to quarantine or isolate individuals who show up with or without symptoms related to COVID-19.

Another COVID-19 molecular and research laboratory is proposed at the Harmony Advanced Diagnostic Centre which will utilise Reverse transcription and PCR in real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR).

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