Nigeria has recorded 13 B117, popularly known as the UK variant, of coronavirus strain.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Boss Mustapha said this on Monday at the joint national briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, in Abuja
He said six were detected in the last one week from samples collected between November and January.
Mustapha said the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control was working with the Africa Centre for Disease Control on genomic surveillance.
“Testing is still being aggressively pursued as a viable strategy and the PTF shall continue to appeal to not just the citizens to get tested but call on sub-national entities to ensure that capacity of the laboratories that have been established within their jurisdictions be fully maximized,” he said.
“This will help reduce the burden on the National Reference Laboratory and the attendant lengthy turnaround time for test results.”
