The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Thursday explained why some COVID-19 patients in the country were seen in videos playing and dancing at isolation centres.

According to the Director General of the agency, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, the fact that some coronavirus patients are seen playing and dancing in isolation centres does not mean they are not ill.

Ihekweazu stated this while appearing on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, adding that COVID-19 is an infectious disease which may not necessarily weaken infected persons the way other diseases do.

“I think people really need to understand why people are being put in these centres. Normally, you only go into a hospital when you’re ill, get a diagnosis, and then you are sometimes admitted if you’re very ill.

“But in this case, following the experience from other countries, we made a [b]Continue Reading...[/b]

why won't they play and dance? I rest my case

Well explained. Not all covid19 patients are weak and ill.

Please open up Businesses with a thoroughly defined rules and regulations joo. That's all I want to hear.

Not all this Drama

They need to sing and dance to forget their sorrow.

Now we are getting somewhere, you admit it's not as deadly as you used media to present it to Nigerians.Statements like Nigeria should prepare for the worse, etc should cease from your mouth henceforth.

There is nothing FG want to explain on this matter. We already know that those people are not Covid patient rather they are malaria patient. If it is Covid-19 it will show.