The Federal Executive Council has approved the sum of N8.5bn for the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
The fund was approved on Wednesday during the federal executive council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire had presented a memorandum on behalf of NCDC to the council.
The fund is meant for the procurement of items in various quantities for conducting of COVID-19 in the country.
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President Buhari in March approved N5billion for the agency.
The new funding takes the agency’s extra-budgetary allocation to N13.5billion.
