Benue State Government has denied the traces of fresh case of Coronavirus disease in the state.
This is contrary to media report credited to Word Health Organisation that announced 25 cases of fresh Coronavirus disease, COVID-19 infections the state at one day Civil Society Organizations, and Media Engagement/Orientation meeting on COVID-19 ramp up in Makurdi on Tuesday.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Yanma Ortese, who spoke to our correspondent on the phone declared that the figure given by WHO was between January and April, 2023.
He said, “The truth of the matter is that the representative of World Health Organisation was misrepresented.
“Earlier, this year, there was a survey conducted by Apin Initiative in Nigeria, they got people screened for tuberculosis, Human Immuno Deficiency Virus and by extension they added Covid 19 and they got 25 tested positive for covid 19.
“But since then, I mean May, 2023 till now, we have not recorded any. So, for somebody to now say in December that there was a fresh case of Covid 19 is not the best.
“The woman who said that said that she was being misrepresented.”
The Commissioner said that as at December, 10, 2023, the state had attained the vaccination coverage of Covid-19 by 56.6 per cent.
