The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that it will test all Youth corps members across the country.
This test, they say, will be done using the new antigen-based test.
This statement was made in anticipation of the reopening of National Youth Service Corps orientation camps across the country.
Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, the Director-General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu said, “We will test everyone (corps members) and that will enable us to keep our camps safe and also help us understand what is going on in the rest of the country.
“We know that corps members are normally young mobile population. Again, we are counting on not only the young people going to camps but parents; so we need the parents to support young people to do what they have to do.
“We have been working extremely hard over the last two months with NYSC to reopen youth service camps. We have made a lot of progress to ensure that we can do that safely.”
He revealed that the Federal Government has launched Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) call across all the states and that young people interested in the IPC programme were being trained for self-management and self-regulation in the camps as they opened.
