The Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have arrested five people who claimed that one of them had been infected with Coronavirus.
The five had rushed to the Wuse District Hospital with the claimed victim causing panic and confusion and disrupting normal medical services in the hospital.
All five were paraded at the Wuse Zone 3 Divisional Police station.
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According to the FCT police spokesperson, Anjuguri Manzah, the suspects claimed to have been playing out a script about the virus without knowledge or authorisation from relevant authorities.
The suspects are named as Peggy Shandi (M), Abayomi Adedoyin (M), David Gold Enemigin (M) Priscilla AJesola (F) and Jacob Oji (M).
Meanwhile, the FCT Department of Public Health has restated that there is no confirmed case of Coronavirus in the FCT and advised the people to remain calm.
The Director of Public Health, Dr. Josephine Okechukwu, said that the action of the pranksters was very wrong as it was capable of creating pandemonium in a hospital environment where the alleged action took place.
She said that if such false information was released on the social media, it would do great damage not just to the FCT but the country at large.
