The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday announced that the agency is currently tracing about 12,000 persons who have had contact with confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19.

“The number of contacts is very fluid because with every new case, there is a new contact. But we are following up about cumulatively 12,000 contacts across the country from the beginning of the outbreak,” he said.

The NCDC boss also said lack of adequate bed spaces for COVID-19 patients across the country was still a challenge.

“There is no state in Nigeria, even Lagos, that has fully fulfilled the bed capacity that they need to respond to this outbreak.

“No single state in Nigeria has achieved that,” he said.