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Nigerians must learn to live with COVID-19 until we have a vaccine ―NCDC


The Nigerian Federal Government has said its citizens may have to learn to live with the COVID-19 until there is a vaccine to halt its spread.
The government also asked the organized labour to develop new strategies for workplace operations at the end of the current outbreak of the pandemic.


These were part of the disclosures at Friday’s briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 in Abuja.
Speaking during the briefing, the Director General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu in his said Nigerians would have to learn to live with the pandemic until there is a vaccine to halt it.

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“…we really encourage all Nigerians, because we are at the beginning of a journey and the most likely scenario is that until we have a vaccine, we would have to learn to live with COVID-19 in our country.