The Director-General of the United Nations health agency, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus on Saturday took to his Twitter handle, @DrTedros, to applaud the Nigeria government.
He also thanked the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) for its efforts since the index case of the virus was reported late February.
Ghebreyesus noted that Nigeria was swift and transparent in the manner it shared the sequence of coronavirus from the country’s first case.
“This a true act of solidarity and an important step in stopping the coronavirus from spreading further,” he wrote.
Ghebreyesus made the remark in response to an earlier tweet by NCDC that Nigeria has published the first African SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence from the virus.
