NYSC, COVID-19: All Corps Members Will Be Tested – NCDC

The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that all members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme at orientation camps the nation over will go through one of the new antigen-based tests.

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Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, the NCDC Director General who made this known at the PTF instructions on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the cycle of obtainment of the antigen-based test is nearly finished.

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He said the move is important for endeavors to guarantee the sheltered re-opening of NYSC camps in the nation.

“We will test everybody to empower us to protect our camps with the comprehension of what is happening in the nation,” he said.

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Ihekweazu said that the government had launched an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) call vanguard in all the states with youngsters intrigued by the IPC being prepared for self-administration and guidelines in the camps as they open.

The NCDC DG clarified that the risk assessment of the apparent multitude of camps has been on over the most recent couple of weeks and guaranteed guardians of the security of their youngsters in camps.

He encouraged guardians to urge their kids to do the needful prior to continuing in the camps.

He said that however the young people are at lower risk, yet ‘lower risk means no risk’.

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