COVID-19: FG warns Nigerians against visiting Kogi State

The Federal Government has warned Nigerians against visiting Kogi State. The state has been classified as a COVID-19 high risk state because of its failure to acknowledge the existence of the disease, report tests or build isolation centres.

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 disclosed this on Monday.

“We have states where data is not coming forth. If we don’t test, your data will not be analysed and if your data is not analysed, we won’t know the level of the pandemic in your state,” Mukhtar Muhammad, the National Incident Manager of the PTF said.

“Notable among the states that have not been reporting adequately include Yobe, Jigawa, Zamfara and Kebbi and, of course, Kogi that has not been reporting at all.

“States that are not testing are probably at much more higher risk than the states that are currently known as high burdened states. For Kogi, which is not conducting tests at all, Muhammad said it is at the “high risk.”

“A state that is not testing at all is an absolute high risk for Nigerians to go there because there is no testing facility and even if you fall sick, there is no isolation centre and they don’t even acknowledge that the disease exists. So for that reason, we put that state at the top of high risk state.”