Kano State Government has debunked reports suggesting the circulation of a fake Coronavirus vaccine in the state.
The state’s Commissioner of Information, Mr. Muhammad Garba, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Kano, said there was no COVID-19 vaccine on sale in the state, and that the state government had not received any report on the issue.
Recall that the Federal Government, through the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, had raised an alarm over the circulation of fake COVID-19 vaccine and cautioned residents of the state not to patronise the fake product.
The Minister who noted that the vaccine is yellow in colour stressed that there is no known vaccine for the virus yet.
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Reacting to the claim on Sunday, Garba told NAN: “We have a committee dealing with drugs in the state, if there is any of such issue, the committee will inform us, and there is no such vaccine in Kano.
“People should also disregard anyone who comes forward that they have cure for COVID-19, the disease has no cure for now.”
Garba added that as part of efforts to curtail the spread of the disease, the state government conducted fumigation exercise in places where cases of the disease were reported to disinfect the area.
He explained that fumigation and disinfecting exercise were conducted at religious places of worships, motor parks, remand homes, densely populated settlements and other places to stem spread of the virus.
