The agency said 26 per cent of calls to its emergency lines last week were hoax calls.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said about 26 per cent of emergency calls made to its centres last week were ‘hoax’ calls., made this known at the bi-weekly Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday.
Mr Ihekweazu said some called to find out about the availability of the controversial COVID-19 drug from Madagascar, “but some said they were only calling to see if the emergency lines were actually functional.” He said such calls “clog the phone lines and make it difficult for individuals with genuine cases to contact the agency.”
“26 per cent of all our calls last week were hoax calls. One in four of all the calls coming to the NCDC connect centre were hoax calls; people were just calling for one reason or the other – to check whether you are there, to challenge you, to ask you about Madagascar cure or something like that,” he said.
The call lines were made available to ensure people who may have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus which has claimed millions of lives globally report immediately to the infectious disease centre.
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