The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention is the national public health institute for Nigeria. It is a federal government agency under the Federal Ministry of Health, with its headquarters
Front view of the NCDC Headquarters
A lab scientist labelling a cryovial tube to aliquot suspected COVID-19 sample at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory
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In public health, contact tracing is the process of identifying people who may have been exposed to an infected person and subsequent collection of further data to assess transmission. By tracing the
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
…operational levels in the response to epidemic-prone and pandemic-prone diseases. They operate under various roles to serve different capacities within contact tracing, risk communications, infection prevention and control, surveillance, and coordination. The director-general of the NCDC is a senior-level position…
Contact tracing during a cholera outbreak in Bangladesh (2014): FETP investigators interview the mother of an index case patient.
Three ways to sign in for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
App-based contact tracing during COVID-19.