The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Tuesday brushed off a social media record claiming that "there are 4 US-managed organic laboratories running in Nigeria, insisting that Nigeria has no laboratories wherein monkeypox virus is produced.
The organization stated in a press announcement signed through Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, the Director-General of the NCDC, that the announcement became now no longer subsidized up through any evidence.
The designation and sports of Nigerian public fitness laboratories are acknowledged to the supervising authorities, the NCDC announcement continues, "with the bulk of the laboratories having been procured and installation through the Federal Government in all 36 States and the FCT for diagnostic purposes, in reaction to the need.
Other laboratories are committed to the Federal Government's and Partners' extraordinarily a success HIV manipulate program, that is primarily based totally on large and longstanding bilateral and multilateral cooperation in public fitness, which include sickness prevention, diagnosis, surveillance, and manipulate.
In general, Nigeria welcomes medical cooperation with all overseas countries, and has obtained economic help from the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and different countries, in addition to mentioned vaccine manufacturing with Russia.
At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, collaboration among Nigeria and america furnished possibilities for technical help, ability building, equipment, and area hospitals, in addition to price range to assist fitness applications which includes HIV/AIDS and malaria elimination.