Medical personnel conducting tests on coronavirus at Nigeria’s various airports lacked enough working tools, the Centre of Disease Control [CDC] said on Tuesday.

Professor Isa Abubakar from the CDC said this while speaking on the Hausa service of Radio France International monitored in Kaduna.

He noted that the Nigerian authorities had achieved much in ensuring that the disease did not have a foothold in the country.

The damning verdict is coming after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), urged Nigerians not to panic over the disease as his regime had put in place measures to tackle it.

He, however, warned that Nigerians must not be carried away and give space for the disease to be in the land.

Abubakar said:

“It is a great success that the disease has not spread in the various parts of this country. Attention was paid to the disease knowing that it is a one-off thing.

“Medics from State Ministries of Health and the Federal Ministry of Health are in the airports, in Abuja, Kano and other airports conducting tests. They are all there.

“But the working tools are inadequate in some of the airports. I don’t know much about the situation in Lagos. But in the airports I visited, working tools were not enough when I was there.

“We talked to the relevant officials in one of the airports before the right thing was done.”