Dr Chikwe Ihekweazuhe, Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has said youths between the ages of 20 and 40 are responsible for the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
He added that the majority of those suffering from the virus are older people from the age of 50 years and above.
Dr Ihekweazuhe noted on Thursday in Abuja, during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 that three out five people who have died from the virus are people from the age of 50 and above.
He said, “As more people are infected across the world, you would have seen the numbers; it is increasingly obvious that transmission among younger people really, not children, but people aged between 20 and 40 as far as we know, are really driving the spread of this virus, but those that are bearing the brunt of it are people age 50 and above.
“Three out of five people who died from COVID-19 are 50 years and above; so we have to work harder, all of us collectively, to protect our elderly. We are on the verge of opening our airports, we have relaxed intercity travel.”
Ihekweazu asked the people not to go on social visits which might further the spread of the virus.
He said that the NCDC had published new guidelines and advisory for vulnerable people, and urged Nigerians to read it.
