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Anambra records 101 cases, targets 4,425 weekly tests

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Anambra is targetting 4,425 weekly COVID-19 tests, Governor Willie Obiano has said.

He also informed the state has recorded 101 positive cases.

In a State broadcast Monday night, Obiano said despite the high infection rates, Anambra residents should not panic.

He said since the outbreak of the pandemic, Anambra had collected a total of 618 samples and conducted 590 tests.

“We have 28 samples awaiting results from our laboratory. So far, we have recorded 12 deaths.

“But happily, we have a total of 77 people who have successfully recovered from Covid-19 through careful management by our special Covid-19 medical team. They have all been discharged,” he added.

He said the data from the state showed all the patients who submitted for early testing and treatment by the team survived the pandemic.

Obiano announced that testing teams had been stationed in all the 21 Local Government Areas to ensure immediate collection of samples for testing.

“I am delighted to announce that our Covid-19 testing laboratory at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH) has started functioning.

“The lab became operational last week. Already, the laboratory has run a total of 208 Covid-19 tests within its short period of operation.

“Each of its five machines has an installed capacity to run 470 tests in 24 hours. This means that when fully optimized, our molecular laboratory can run a total of 2,350 Covid-19 tests in 24 hours.

“It may be interesting to note that from the testing expectations distributed to every state of the federation by the NCDC, Anambra State is expected to have done a total of 115, 974 tests in the next six months.

“A breakdown of this figure shows that Anambra must do a total of 4,425 tests per week to meet this national average.

“Ndi Anambra, with our new molecular lab, we can surpass that figure. But we must work together to surpass it,” Obiano said.

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