The Director-General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), CHIKWE IHEWEAZU, has said that Nigeria now has a testing capacity of 3,000 persons per day.

At a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, the NCDC boss reiterated that testing capacity had improved but the only bottleneck left is how to get the right samples in for testing.

According to the NCDC boss, the government is setting up 20 healthcare facilities in Lagos which will be announced once they are open.

Dr IHEKWEAZU also gave some key recommendations regarding the use of facemasks as a protective gear.