THUR, APRIL 02 2020-theG&BJournal– Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have completed the transfer of materials and COVID-19 test kits donated by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma to the 36 states of the federation.
According to the NCDC, the received materials were distributed with priority given to states with the highest number of cases at the time of distribution.
Lagos State with the highest number of confirmed cases received 27, 678 face masks, 2596 overall gowns and 165 face shields while the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with the second highest number of confirmed cases got 14,115 face masks, 1906 overall gown and 161 face shield. Ogun state received 4375, 671 and 58 face masks, overall gowns and face shield respectively.
Besides, Osun, Oyo and Rivers states, all received 1912, 291 and 26 face masks, overall gowns and face shield respectively while the rest states received the same number of each items-1500, 110 and 20 face masks, overall gowns and face shield respectively.
Nigeria received 100,000 face masks, 9,999 overall gowns, 20, 000 reagents for testing and 913 face shields from the total Ma donated to Africa in March 2020.
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