No fewer than 138 members of the National Youth Service Corps have tested positive for COVID-19, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, said on Monday.
The NCDC Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, who disclosed this during the briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja said the safe reopening of the NYSC orientation camps across the country was successful.
Ihekweazu stated that none of those who tested positive was allowed into the camps.
According to him, “a total of 34,785 corps members and members of the camp communities have been tested so far in the last weeks of which only 138 was found positive, which is 0.4 per cent prevalence and 1 in 200 people.”
He said those who tested positive were either managed at home or in a treatment centre depending on if they had symptoms and what state they were in.
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The DG said the next challenge would be how to work with education stakeholders to ensure the safe reopening of universities.
“Universities have proven to be slightly risky; it has its unique challenges but we are confident that we can address this as we have done in other sectors like aviation,” Ihekweazu stated.
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