The Kogi state government says it has partnered with the
United States Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) to set up a reference molecular
laboratory for COVID-19 tests.
Saka Haruna, commissioner for health, who broke the news in
a statement on Monday, said the laboratory will be used to attend to residents
with symptoms related to COVID-19.
He added that Kogi has established the Confluence Centre for
Infectious Diseases in Lokoja, the state capital, saying manpower has been
deployed in the facilities.
The laboratory was set up amid the state’s insistence that
it has no case of COVID-19 despite the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
(NCDC) announcing three cases in Kogi.
It accused the NCDC of falsifying COVID-19 cases in the
state.
It also comes 24 hours after Nasir Ajanah, the state chief
judge of Kogi state, died at the COVID-19 isolation centre in Gwagwalada,
Abuja.
A statement issued on Monday by Kingsley Fanwo, the Kogi
commissioner for information, said the state government will organise a 3-day
Fidau prayer in honour of the late chief judge.
“The Fidau prayer would hold at the residence of the late
Justice Ajanah in the Government Reserved Area (GRA) Lokoja by 8am on Tuesday,
30th June, 2020,” Fanwo said, adding that “the prayers will hold in line with
the NCDC protocol of social distancing.”
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