The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has launched a whatsapp service to disseminate latest information about the dreaded disease, coronavirus also known as COVID-19 rampaging the world.
The health agency made this known in a series of tweets on its Twitter page on Sunday morning. Adding that the whatsapp group is a 2-way conversations between the agency and Nigerians.
We‘ll send real-time messages to all Nigerians who opt into the service, & Nigerians can also engage directly with us, one of the tweets said.
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What you can do with the new Whatsapp service:
- Get latest updates on #COVID19NIGERIA
- Get information on how testing is carried out
- Receive urgent messages from NCDC Simply add the number: 07087110839 and send “Hi”
Add NCDC via: https://bit.ly/3bqNpPr
What you can do with the new Whatsapp service:
1. Get latest updates on #COVID19NIGERIA
2. Get information on how testing is carried out
3. Receive urgent messages from NCDC
Simply add the number: 07087110839 and send "Hi"
Please share widely!#TakeResponsibility— NCDC (@NCDCgov) March 29, 2020
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