Dr Osagie Ehanire, the minister of health has appealed to Nigerians to donate their buildings temporarily as isolation centres.
Ehanire made the appeal on Thursday at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.
He said more buildings would be needed as isolation centres, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, is making plans to get more people tested for COVID-19 within the next three months
The minister stated, “I have appealed to citizens to make their property available temporarily for this purpose. I am sure that after that, there are many property owners who will come up and donate to state governments for a period of time to be used for this function.
“We are not out of space now but we are making the appeal ahead of time so that we have these facilities ready.”
More so, Ehanire urged Nigerians to take advantage of the new facilities to get themselves tested, noting that test capacity of the 15 laboratories in Nigeria had reached 2500.
