Joseph Bakare
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control(NCDC) has announced a new case definition for Coronavirus due to community transmission in parts of the country.
Recall that Akin Abayomi, Lagos State commissioner for health, had said that cases of community transmission were on the rise.
Community transmission means people have been infected with the virus in an area, including some who are not sure how or where they became infected.
The centre said in a tweet on Sunday that symptoms of suspected cases include cough and fever, but has now added to the list.
It also added that people with history of fever in the last 2 weeks with 1 or more of the following symptoms would now be listed as suspected cases of the virus.
Listed symptoms are ;Shivering /shaking (chills), Body pain, Headache, Sore throat, Recent loss of taste or smell and Difficulty in breathing/shortness of breath.
Others are Diarrhea/abdominal pain, Runny nose/catarrh and Fatigue (tiredness)
On the other hand, the NCDC said a probable case of COVID-19 include any person that presented any of the above symptoms in the last two weeks and died without a confirmatory COVID-19 test.
As of May 2, the country had a total of 2388 confirmed cases of COVID19.
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Before now all these mentioned has been in place without any fear why is it that ordinary sickness will turn to be covid- 19 think twice Mr Man . God is watching.