After consultations by the Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Tunji Alausa with the Management of the National Obstetric Fistula Centre (NOFIC) Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, where a memo was released earlier concerning a new variant of Covid-19. A press statement has been issued by the National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Abakaliki to that effect;
“This is to further clarify that the information from the purported internal memo emanating from National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Abakaliki, in which the Head of Clinical Services warned the staff to take caution as the Covid-19 was on the prowl again, cannot be sustained and therefore not true”.
“The public should be informed that no new Covid-19 case or infection has been detected in our Centre. No new Covid-19 patient has presented or diagnosed in our Centre for the past one year. There is no rise in Covid-19 cases in Abakaliki or in Ebonyi State in general. The information contained in the said internal memo was a product of unverified and unsubstantiated flying news from social media”.
The general public is therefore advised to disregard the memo and its content.It is only the Nigerian Centre for Disease and Control (NCDC) that is statutorily empowered to release information on such matters as Covid-19.
Patricia Deworitshe
Director (Information)
