TY - JOUR AU - Bolu, Omotayo AU - Mustapha, Boss AU - Ihekweazu, Chikwe AU - Muhammad, Mukthar AU - Hassan, Assad AU - Abdulwahab, Ahmad AU - Asekun, Adeyelu AU - Nsirim, Reward AU - Okechukwu, Emeka AU - Attah, Ibrahim AU - Swaminathan, Mahesh AU - Greby, Stacie AU - Adebiyi, Adebimpe AU - Alex-Okoh, Morenike AU - Okwor, Tochi AU - Ilori, Elsie AU - Mba, Nwando AU - Mutah, Joe AU - Akujobi, James AU - Battah, Ndirpaya AU - Haggai, Wilfred AU - Okatubo, Geoffrey AU - Okigbo, Awele AU - Castle, Evelyn AU - Abubakar, Ibrahim AU - Akataobi, Charles AU - Adekunle, Olusegun AU - Aliyu, Sani T1 - Effect of Nigeria Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 Pandemic, Nigeria T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2022 VL - 28 IS - 13 SP - 168 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Nigeria had a confirmed case of COVID-19 on February 28, 2020. On March 17, 2020, the Nigerian Government inaugurated the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to coordinate the country’s multisectoral intergovernmental response. The PTF developed the National COVID-19 Multisectoral Pandemic Response Plan as the blueprint for implementing the response plans. The PTF provided funding, coordination, and governance for the public health response and executed resource mobilization and social welfare support, establishing the framework for containment measures and economic reopening. Despite the challenges of a weak healthcare infrastructure, staff shortages, logistic issues, commodity shortages, currency devaluation, and varying state government cooperation, high-level multisectoral PTF coordination contributed to minimizing the effects of the pandemic through early implementation of mitigation efforts, supported by a strong collaborative partnership with bilateral, multilateral, and private-sector organizations. We describe the lessons learned from the PTF COVID-19 for future multisectoral public health response. KW - COVID-19 KW - coronavirus disease KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - viruses KW - respiratory infections KW - zoonoses KW - Nigeria KW - COVID-19 policy KW - COVID-19 mitigation KW - pandemic response DO - 10.3201/eid2813.220254 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/13/22-0254_article ER - End of Reference