The Federal Government on Tuesday warned Nigerians against injecting themselves with the concoction being peddled in Kano State called COVID-19 Vaccine.
Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed gave the warning in Abuja during the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19, stressing that whatever is being hawked in Kano is fake and should not be used.
“In the absence of vaccine or drugs, Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention (NPI) remains the most effective way to contain the spread of the disease and protect Nigerians.
“By the way, you must have heard of the vaccine being hawked in Kano which is called ‘COVID-19 Vaccine’. It is yellow in colour.
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“It is not certified by anybody. Please, do not patronize the hawkers. In the meantime, the National Broadcasting Commission NBC has taken steps to prevent misinformation via the broadcast stations by warning them to adhere strictly to the professional ethics of balance and fairness in reporting COVID-19.
“In particular, the Commission has warned the stations against bringing on their programmes ‘panellists’ with agenda to make reckless statements and insinuations”.
In his own comments, the Minister of State for Health, Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora said: “the national rapid response team (RRTs) supporting the COVID-19 response in each affected state have been deployed.
“With community transmission, we are doing active case search in communities.
This strategy requires more testing kits and diagnostics. Currently, we are assessing additional laboratories for accreditation and will announce more laboratories soon”.
