COVID-19: No Chinese doctor has tested positive for Coronavirus – FG

The presidential task force on COVID-19 has debunked the reports claiming that one of the Chinese doctors recently brought into Nigeria had tested positive for the virus.

The minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who is also a member of the task force, debunked the claim on Wednesday, April 15, during the daily media briefing in Abuja.

The minister said the task force had been having to devote as much energy devoted to the fight against COVID-19 to debunking fake news being regularly spun against the efforts of government in fighting the pandemic.

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He urged Nigerians to disregards COVID-19 related reports that do not emanate from the task force’s daily briefings or the website of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

Mohammed also debunked another report claiming that members of the National Assembly had shared N700 million fund.

“To the best of my knowledge, I’m not aware that any such money has been given to members of the National Assembly, but I know that fake news is not abating.

“This morning, there was a message that went viral, to the effect that one of the Chinese doctors tested positive and that news was supposed to have emanated from the Twitter handle of the federal government. I want to say, to the best of our knowledge here, there’s no such thing,”