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COVID-19: Only sequencing can determine if variants of concern are circulating in communities Ihekweazu, NCDC D-G
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By Chioma Obinna
As controversies continue to trail the different types of COVID-19 variants of concern globally, the Federal government has said that it is only through sequencing can Nigeria establish if any of these variants are circulating within the local communities.
Disclosing this through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, government declared that the real impact of the variants on vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, mortality and symptoms are yet unknown.