Gunmen, on Wednesday, attacked the Federal Medical Centre
(FMC) in Lokoja, Kogi state, and disrupted a COVID-19 press conference.
The hospital had scheduled a media briefing for the day to
demand a COVID-19 screening centre in the state and to also speak about the
challenges health workers are facing with regard to the disease.
The armed men were said to have arrived at the facility in
three vehicles and shot sporadically to disperse the meeting.
Health workers were said to have been harassed by the gunmen
who took away laptops and vital documents.
They were also said to have destroyed properties.
On Tuesday, Yahaya Bello, governor of the state, said
Nigerians are being made to accept the reality of COVID-19 “by force”.
He said the virus was created to “shorten the lifestyle of
the people”, while asking residents not to accept what he described as “cut and
paste COVID-19″.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has so far
announced three cases of COVID-19 in Kogi, but the state government has
insisted that the state is free of the disease.
It has repeatedly accused the NCDC of falsifying COVID-19
cases in Kogi.
But the state government said on Monday it had partnered the
United States Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) to set up a reference molecular
laboratory for COVID-19 tests.
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