NYSC Members Debunks Reports That 13 Corps Members In Cross Rivers Tested Positive For COVID-19

 

Mr Enuma Peter, NYSC's Assistant Director, Press and Public Relations Unit, said no corps part right now in the direction camp in Calabar, tried positive. 

Following reports that 13 corp individuals tried positive for Covid, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Cross River State has exposed the cases. 

Mr Enuma Peter, NYSC's Assistant Director, Press and Public Relations Unit, said no corps part right now in the direction camp in Calabar, tried positive. 

"NYSC wishes to declare that as of now, no enrolled 2020 Batch B Stream II corps part in Cross River is COVID-19 positive. 

"It is qualified to take note of that all forthcoming corps individuals for the progressing program went through COVID-19 test directed by the National Center for Disease Control, which is a condition for induction into any of the 37 camps in the country." 

The administration noticed that the Cross River Commissioner for Health has not mentioned or gotten any short from the NYSC on the progressing COVID-19 trial of corps individuals at the direction camp in Obubra Local Government zone of the state . 

Peter cautioned that any report aside that of the joint delivery from NYSC and NCDC from the progressing direction course might not have given the genuine image of the situation. 

"The administration of NYSC in Cross River might want to utilize this chance to add that all direction camp authorities and guests to the camp are likewise constantly tried by authorities of NCDC while the whole camp local area guarantees exacting consistence to all COVID-19 conventions. 

"It is additionally deceptive to accuse the expanded number of Covid cases in Cross River to the exercises of NYSC, taking into account that there is free development of Nigerians across state's limits which has nothing to do with the direction course," the assertion added.