The Nigeria Centre for
Disease Control (NCDC) has declared the emergency phase of the Lassa fever
outbreak ravaging the country over.
This is after four and a
half months of the country combating the disease in 21 states, leading to 129
deaths.
The announcement was made
in a press statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES on Friday.
The statement was co-signed
by the Director General, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, and the Officer-in-Charge,
World Health Organisation, Nigeria, (WHO) Clement Peter.
The ’emergency phase’ of
the 2019 Lassa fever outbreak was declared over following a joint
epidemiological review by NCDC, WHO Nigeria and other partners.
Due to increased report of
cases of the disease in some states across the country, NCDC earlier this year
(January 22) declared a Lassa fever emergency in Nigeria.
The agency had activated a
national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) to coordinate response activities in
the face of rising Lassa fever cases across the country. This was done by NCDC,
in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment (FMEnv) and the
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD).
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