The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has raised alarm over the increase in deaths in the country caused by rejection of patients in the country’s hospitals.
The PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, while briefing newsmen on Thursday at the task force press conference in Abuja, said despite the admonition of the Federal Ministry of Health, hospitals were still rejecting non-COVID-19 patients.
According to him, some organisations are selling “what they call antibody tests.” He, therefore warned that such “antibody tests” could not give valid COVID-19 results.
Nigeria currently has 8,915 COVID-19 patients as at Thursday and 112 isolation centres in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory. There are 29 laboratories, where COVID-19 is being tested.
