The National Youth Service Corps in Cross River State has said no corps member tested positive to COVID-19 in the state.
According to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria , the NYSC was reacting to the claim by the Commissioner for Health in the state, Betta Edu, that 13 corps members tested positive while in the orientation camp in the state. Cross River State on Sunday recorded 20 cases of COVID-19 infection, the highest so far in the state.
“We had people who came in for the NYSC, about 13 of them were positive cases. So, these are people who moved into our state from other states.Mrs Edu, a medical doctor, heads the COVID-19 task force in the state.“Management wishes to assert that at present, no registered 2020 Batch B Stream II corps member in Cross River is COVID-19 positive,” Enuma Peter, a spokesperson for the NYSC in the state, said Tuesday in a statement.
“It is worthy to note that all prospective corps members for the ongoing programme underwent COVID-19 test conducted by the National Centre for Disease Control, which is a condition for admission into any of the 37 camps in the country.
That is if they conducted the test well.