The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has set up five new COVID – 19 testing laboratories in the country.

The new centres will be located at Edo Specialist Hospital, Benin; Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi; Rivers Indorama Company Molecular Lab; State Specialist Hospital, Amachara, Abia; and University of Abuja, Gwagwalada GeneXpert Laboratory.

The NCDC in a statement said the development brought the total number of laboratories in its Molecular Laboratory Network to 58.

At the moment, the country has 46 Polymerase chain reaction diagnostic machines and 12 GeneXpert laboratories.