The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said one in four calls the NCDC received last week was a hoax.

He disclosed this during the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing yesterday in Abuja. The NCDC chair said the quality of their call centre had improved from what it used to be but he lamented that 26 percent of the calls they receive were all hoax

“We have improved on our call centre, but last week one in four calls we received was a hoax call. Again, 26 percent of all calls we received at the call centre are all hoax calls.” Dr Ihekweazu said.

Speaking further, he said the NCDC was currently working on an online platform that would ease challenges of transmitting results to patients.

“With this,” he said, “we will no longer rely on state government or hospitals to transmit results. There is a process in transmitting results. We want to alter it with technology”.

“There is a bigger challenge which we are addressing. Right now, there is an online platform we are setting up to transmit results online and you can walk in and check your result with your code and be sure that everyone with the positive result has been notified.”


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