Yobe Govt ‘opens up on mass death, connection with COVID-19’

Yobe State Government, through the COVID-19 Committee on Prevention and Control, has described as untrue reports of mass deaths in the State, associated with COVID-19. The State Commissioner of Health who is also the Vice Chairman COVID-19 Committee, Dr. Lawan Gana said in a media briefing that even before the news, teams have been constituted

Yobe State Government, through the COVID-19 Committee on Prevention and Control, has described as untrue reports of mass deaths in the State, associated with COVID-19.

“These rumors happened, people died due a lot of problems. We may not say it is coronavirus and we may not say it is not. But when this happens, we always have standard ways of doing things and we have ways of responding to alerts and we have standard ways of responding to rumours. “Rumors and misconceptions are not going to help us in mitigating the problems around coronavirus disease. Avoid peddled rumours.

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