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NCDC Gives Fresh Update on HMPV Situation in Nigeria
- Nigeria faces no immediate threat from HMPV, says NCDC.
- NCDC monitors HMPV globally, with no cases reported in Nigeria.
- Public urged to maintain hygiene, avoid overcrowding as precautions.
While concerns have arisen globally about the virus, the NCDC confirmed that there is no cause for alarm in Nigeria.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that NCDC Director-General, Dr. Jide Idris, explained during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily that HMPV, although not widely known, has been implicated in various respiratory infections, especially among children and the elderly.
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“Let me say, there’s no serious threat for now. That’s one. Two, this HMPV virus, it’s not a new virus. It’s just that it’s not well-known. But it’s been implicated in many respiratory infections over the years, over the countries, especially in children, and elderly people,” .
Dr. Idris assured that while no cases of HMPV have been reported in Nigeria, the country is closely monitoring the situation and remains on high alert.
“We are in a monitoring and alert phase, and that’s why again we take instructions from WHO globally because every country is supposed to report cases like this, any case; any problem to WHO – those things that they consider might become global problems later so that they can alert every other country to get prepared,” he said on the breakfast show.
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“That’s precisely what we are doing in Nigeria. We’ve experienced some major problems – we had Ebola, and we had COVID. With those two, we developed some capabilities.
We learned our lessons and put infrastructures in place. So we’ve got public health infrastructures. These are things you need to put in place in expectation of things like this so that you don’t have to start running helter-skelter.”
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