Kogi State Government rejects new Covid-19 figure allocation
The Kogi State government have once again denied knowledge of the additional positive Covid-19 case recorded for the state by the NCDC.
The National Center for Disease Control earlier this morning announced 348 new cases of Covid-19 with with Lagos State recording 163, FCT 76 and Rivers State 21.
Delta, Nasarawa and Niger states recorded 8 cases respectively, Enugu 6, Bauchi, Edo Ekiti, Ondo and Gombe recorded 5 cases each, Banue has 4, Ogun 2, while Osun, Plateau, Kogi and Anambra had 1 each to their names.
However, in a Facebook post by the Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Haruna Saka, he said the ministry and indeed the state government wasn’t aware of the case, he described the new figure as a mere assumption.
“The purported New Case: We are not aware of who the patient is, where and when the Test was conducted.” health commissioner.
Recall that they’ve been a running mistrust between the government of Kogi State and the NCDC over what the government described as opaqueness in the management of the covid-19 pandemic in the country. The government also accused NCDC of commercializing the pandemic, a venture that the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has promised not to be a part of.
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