The Federal Government of Nigeria has said that there would be a dispatch of technical teams to validate the claims by Cross River and Kogi states that they have not recorded any COVID-19 cases.
This was revealed by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Friday, at the daily press briefing of the Presidential Task Force, in Abuja.
Ehanire said the previously sent team to Kogi state didn’t succeed with the operation because of “some differences” with the state authorities. He, however, said a fresh engagement would happen soon.
Ehanire said, “Kogi State is one of the two states that have said that they do not have COVID-19 patients. They seem to be sure of this. So, the agreement we have had with them after discussion with the governor is that we shall send a team in just to validate that fact and engage the authorities.
“Of course, we do that for national records and to be able to report to the world the situation in our country. We tried to send a team into Kogi on Thursday but there were some differences there. So, we need to engage the state governor again and state some conditions within which the ministry and NCDC can complete their jobs. We are going to send a team to Cross River next week also.”
