The Akwa Ibom State government has explained that the nonchalant attitude of indigenes and the influx of people from neighbouring states that do not have
facilities for PCR tests have caused the number of persons tested positive for Delta variant of Covid-19 to be high.
On the attitude of people to the virus, Ukpong who is the immediate past commissioner for Health said people of the State still believe that COVID-19 is not real thereby flouting the protocols recommended by NCDC, making themselves vulnerable to the virus. “You are well aware that we are the only State with two State-owned PCR laboratories which NCDC acclaimed to be about the best in the country. These PCR machines are maintained entirely by the State and people are tested free and all positive cases are also treated free at our permanent facility, the Infectious Disease Center, IDC, at Ituk Mbang.”
“We have also been constantly inviting people to come in for COVID-19 testing. We prefer to test and treat every positive case found rather than wait for symptoms to develop because symptoms of the new variant, the DELTA variant, are not yet quite clear.
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