{"id":16235,"date":"2020-05-28T09:57:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16235"},"modified":"2020-05-28T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:57:45","slug":"longest-viability-period-of-covid-19-in-a-patient-is-10-days-ncdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16235","title":{"rendered":"Longest \u2018viability period\u2019 of COVID-19 in a patient is 10 days \u2014NCDC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Wednesday the longest viability period of the COVID-19 in a patient was 10 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ihekweazu, who disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) media briefing in Abuja, said the agency\u2019s strategy on managing COVID-19<\/a> patients was guided by the latest local and international scientific evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that the NCDC would evaluate if the latest evidence could be incorporated into its patient clinical management plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ihekweazu said the NCDC would release new case management guidelines for COVID-19 to review criteria for admission and discharge of patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that the move would help in managing challenges faced in isolation centres across the country, particularly with the shortage of bed space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCDC<\/a> chief said: \u201cWe are now relooking our practice in terms of discharge criteria, and even who to keep in hospital, and who can stay at home and for how long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight now, the entire case management team which includes our colleagues at the Federal Ministry of Health, NCDC and few clinicians are reviewing our case management guidelines to redefine our approach around admission in terms of who is admitted and duration of admission and when to discharge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Wednesday the longest viability period of the COVID-19 in a patient was 10 days. Ihekweazu, who disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) media briefing in Abuja, said the agency\u2019s strategy on managing COVID-19 patients was guided by the latest local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nLongest \u2018viability period\u2019 of COVID-19 in a patient is 10 days \u2014NCDC » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16235\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16235#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"COVID-19\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Longest \u2018viability period\u2019 of COVID-19 in a patient is 10 days \u2014NCDC\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Longest \u2018viability period\u2019 of COVID-19 in a patient is 10 days \u2014NCDC » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16235","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=16235#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"COVID-19","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Longest \u2018viability period\u2019 of COVID-19 in a patient is 10 days \u2014NCDC"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">COVID-19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Wednesday the longest viability period of the COVID-19 in a patient was 10 days. Ihekweazu, who disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) media briefing in Abuja, said the agency\u2019s strategy on managing COVID-19 patients was guided by the latest local…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16235"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}