The Kogi State Government has alleged plans to 'import' cases of coronavirus into the state through illicit means.
The government also said the plan is part of an “unholy conspiracy to declareIt alleged there were “recent pressures from some interesting quarters for Kogi State to find and declare cases of the disease.”A statement on Tuesday by the state’s commissioner for information, Kingsley Fanwo, alleged “attempts to import the disease or declare fictitious cases”.
The demand, according to the official statement, was suspicious because the said lady confessed that she had stopped feeling the initial symptoms and “her temperature was at a healthy 36.8°C”. 2. Immediately the message was received, the Incident Manager who is also the Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr Saka Haruna, led a team of medical experts to assess the situation with a bid to ascertaining if the alleged symptoms fit into the criteria set by the National Centre for Disease Control for CoviD-19 testing.
5. The temperature readings fell totally within normal range and she did not exhibit any of the other symptoms which by the latest NCDC guidelines ought to have paired her nonexistent fever to necessitate further tests for COVID-19.
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