NCDC seeks support to manage COVID-19 data

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has urged stakeholders to support the centre to enable it manage data obtained from the COVID-19 pandemic appropriately.

The director, prevention programmes and knowledge management, Dr Chinwe Ochu, made the call yesterday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ forum on operational research in public health emergencies organised by the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS).

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Ochu said, “We are collecting a lot of COVID-19 data from different data sources, but we don’t know how to manage them, and we are losing out, so we need support in building capacity for managing data.”

Also, research professor and consultant, Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Richard Adegbola, said that to ensure that scientific evidence was used in policy making processes, a systematic, simple and consistent surveillance was required for data collection, analysis and monitoring of trends.