{"id":231441,"date":"2022-11-28T08:06:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T07:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=231441"},"modified":"2022-11-28T08:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T07:06:30","slug":"yuletide-ncdc-warns-of-possible-covid-19-infection-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/11\/28\/yuletide-ncdc-warns-of-possible-covid-19-infection-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuletide: NCDC warns of possible COVID-19 infection rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has predicted that\u00a0Nigeria will likely see an increase in COVID-19 cases and a decrease in hospitalisation over the holiday season this year.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview, Adetifa claimed that\u00a0the increase in travel over the holiday season might result in a rise in cases.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe are prepared to see that there may be a bump in cases just because of the increase in travel and the number of people returning. What we may not expect to see is an increasing number of people who are sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NCDC boss said vaccination and previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/25\/nigeria-registers-1356-new-covid-19-infections\/\">COVID-19 infections<\/a> provided some degrees of immunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe population has quite a bit of immunity due to vaccination, previous COVID-19 infection, or repeated COVID-19 infection. So. COVID-19 is not new. The Omicron is not new like it was in November (2021).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at our numbers, we haven\u2019t lost people for a while. Even if every single death is a great disaster for people\u2019s families or friends, it\u2019s not anything like the Delta variant when we had a big problem,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, he said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/02\/who-almost-90m-covid-cases-of-omicron-variant-recorded-in-10-weeks\/\">Omicron variant<\/a> was the dominant strain in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cOmicron took over as the dominant variant in November and December last year, and it has refused to go anywhere. 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