Ihekweazu disclosed this while speaking at the media briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Tuesday.
According to him, 29 of those infected are NCDC health officials.
“We have had 812 health workers infected. They are not just numbers. Twenty-nine of this work with NCDC.
“They are people I know. Eight of them right now are in Idu treatment centre. They are people and they matter.
“At the moment 75 per cent of people have unknown sources of their illness. It means community transmission is happening. This is normal of a respiratory virus, which 80 per cent of people are asymptomatic.
Ihekweazu added that over 65,000 samples have been tested.
He also said 60 percent of the cases are in 20 local government areas of the country.
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