The Nigeria Center for Disease Control in a latest statement has released the case definitions for the dreaded Corona Virus disease.
Below are what to look out for for
CASE DEFINITIONS FOR #CORONAVIRUS DISEASE. Any person with acute respiratory illness, (including severe patients who have been hospitalised) presenting with fever, cough, difficulty breathing AND who within 14 days before onset of illness has any one of the following exposures: A suspect case for whom testing for 2019-nCoV is inconclusive or for whom testing was positive on a pan-coronavirus assay
Confirmed case: Any person with laboratory confirmation of 2019nCov* infection with or without signs and symptoms *If you have a patient that matches the case definition above, please contact NCDC to arrange for sample collection and testing on 07032864444
