Kogi State Rejects NCDC's COVID-19 Case Report
The government of Kogi
state has according to reports rejected the government has rejected the 2
cases of COVID-19 reported in the state by NCDC.
On NCDC’s data which was
released for Wednesday May 27th recorded 2 new cases for Kogi state,
a state in Nigeria which was reportedly free of this virus.
However in a statement
which was released the Kogi State Commissioner of Health, Saka Haruna Audu he
revealed that the state government has developed a full testing capacity and
has reportedly conducted hundreds of tests which results had come back
negative, he also added that the Kogi state government will not be a part of
any fictitious COVID-19 claims.
He emphasized that the
state is still very much free of this virus, and that the government will not
recognize any COVID-19 test which is conducted by any Kogite outside the state,
except those which they have approved of and that any attempt to force the
state to announce or confirmed such cases will be vehemently rejected.
He however pleaded with the
residents of the state to continue to take all the necessary precautions to
prevent the spread of the virus into the state.
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