Kogi Rejects Two COVID-19 Cases Announced By NCDC
A patient who is suspected of suffering from COVID-19 coronavirus undergoes testing at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital isolation centre on May 10, 2020. Audu MARTE / AFPThe Kogi state government has rejected the two COVID-19 positive cases announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.Only Kogi state and Cross River were previously the only states not to have recorded any case of the virus.
“When you look at the history of the cases they declared, the patient was admitted at the Federal Medical Centre in Lokoja for symptoms that were far from COVID-19 symptoms. But they were not attended to there and the next thing was to bring them to the National Hospital in Abuja. And within a few hours, they were tested, and under 24 hours, the man was declared COVID-19 positive.Meanwhile, the NCDC had earlier maintained that due process was followed in recording the Kogi cases.
“The physicians in the National Hospital, I don’t have any influence over the work that they do. They suspected COVID-19 based on the clinical symptoms of the patient, asked for a test, and the test came out positive.
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