Covid-19 is a scam in Nigeria, Discharged patient reveals

A female patient aged 36 was discharged from an isolation centre recently

in Warri, Delta state

The patient while speaking with journalists,

insisted that she never received or saw her

results indicating her status of the disease.

On Monday, May 18,

alleged that the ailment is a scam in Nigeria, According to Vanguard reports.

The patient, a female aged 36, was reported

positive of the virus on Friday, April 17 despite

her assertions that she is negative for the

virus.

She said despite her protests, she was taken to

the COVID-19 isolation/treatment centre in

Warri where she was kept for 17 days until her

discharge.

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The patient while speaking with journalists,

insisted that she never received or saw her

results indicating her status of the disease

which she claimed is a scam.

Her words: “It was an audio result that I got.

They called me to tell me that I was positive but

did not give me any result. Before I was taken

there I already said the virus is not in this

country.

“The markets are crowded; if it is here more

people would have been affected. The banks are

also crowded. It’s a scam in this nation. I am a

witness. I have been there. I may have stayed at

the isolation centre, but I do not see myself as

a COVID-19 patient.

“My friend who was with me before I was

admitted is living his normal life. He is fine. His

test was negative. How about my family at

home? When I was sick my mother was the one

bathing me and even slept in the same room

with me many times. She is almost 70 and still

living her normal life. Imagine the close contact

she had with me.

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“They did not plan the drama before they went

on stage. They would have quarantined my

family. The reports that the doctors that

attended to me were all tested positive for

COVID-19 are all fabricated stories.”

Meanwhile, the Human Rights Writers

Association of Nigeria has condemned the

federal government's methods of handling

issues of containment, treatments and finding

cures to the dreaded COVID-19 disease.

The group in a statement sent to journalists on

Sunday, May 17, said gagging citizens from

disclosing their treatment regime whilst in the

COVID-19 isolation centres, “ amounts to

curtailing their constitutionally guaranteed

fundamental freedoms of expression and

information.”

Recall that the federal government had on

Friday, May 15 asked COVID-19 survivors to

stop revealing the drugs used for their

treatment in order to discourage self-

medication among Nigerians.