Plateau government says it has begun an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the leak of the confidential laboratory result of some suspected COVID-19 cases.
The test was carried out at the National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI) Testing Centre in Vom.
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Dan Manjang, the commissioner for information and communication, made this known on Sunday, April 26 The Plateau government has begun an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the leak of the confidential laboratory result of some suspected coronavirus (COVID-19) cases carried out at the National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI) Testing Centre in Vom.
Leakblast.com gathered that the commissioner for information and communication, Dan Manjang, stated this in a press release issued on Sunday, April 26, in Jos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on Thursday, April 23, the result of a suspected person with COVID-19, which tested positive, was circulating in different platforms of social media.
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According to the report, this went on before the official announcement by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Plateau government.
The patient, who is the state’s index case, came into Jos from Kano on April 17.
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