The Federal Government plans to conduct 4,000 COVID-19 tests every day as part of efforts to take advantage of two-week lockdown extension ordered by the President.

The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, disclosed this during a briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.

He said 2,000 tests would be conducted in Lagos, 1,000 in Abuja and 1,000 in other parts of the country.

IHEKWEAZU said Nigeria had increased its laboratories for testing COVID-19 to 12, adding that the government would ensure every state had a lab.

On his part, the Minister of Health, Dr OSAGIE EHANIRE, said isolation centres would be established at the country’s land borders.