The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced that it made a mistake in the figures it released on Friday that 26 new cases were confirmed instead of 25, saying one of the cases was a previous confirmed case and not a new one.
As seen below, the health agency also said that of the 25 new cases, one which was actually from Oyo State was inadvertently referred to as a case from Osun State.
The NCDC in its daily report on its twitter handle on Saturday, said Oyo now has nine cases while Osun now has 20.
CORRECTION 1/4
On 3rd of April 2020, we reported 26 new cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria. An error has been discovered in this report as follows:
⚫️ There were 25 new cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria. The 26th case was a repeat result of a previously confirmed case and NOT a new case pic.twitter.com/oq2FA6zvpY
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 4, 2020
4/4
We regret the error in our announcement of new #COVID19 cases in Nigeria yesterday.
The NCDC remains committed to ensuring transparency and accurate reporting of infectious disease cases in Nigeria
— NCDC (@NCDCgov) April 4, 2020
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This error sparked mixed reactions, some Nigerians are mocking the Health Agency for their mistake, Afriupdate News gathered some of the reactions as seen below:
You don’t joke with things like this, please no more error. This is matter of life and death.
— dexall (@oxdexall) April 4, 2020
As in the person was so unfortunate to contact the virus twice or what? pic.twitter.com/t6Xu5s3xef
— adams (@adams_QL) April 4, 2020
Get your facts correct before posting na
— Nero ✝ (@NeroNotNyero) April 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/Prince__Chris/status/1246412298249527296?s=20
Unless there won't be no new cases today, then I see no need for the correction when you can just deduct it from today's cases
— Olatunji (@ObaDosunmu) April 4, 2020
Never knew minus one would feel this good
— Joseph Tete (@Zenda_Tete) April 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/aqualady6666/status/1246412285247176705?s=20
Lol
— Nto Biafra (@NtoBiafra) April 4, 2020
This is the exact reason why i suggested that .@NCDCgov ahould not provide multiple daily reports on covid-19 count. 0ne report every 24 hours is sufficient and is the practice globally. The world is watching and ncdc has done a good job so far. …..1/2
— #DefendNIGERIA. Je’ N Wi Temi! (@TheOtitokoro) April 4, 2020
2/2. Do not destroy this good effort with unreliable data and corrections. Pls follow my advice and issue only 1 report every 24 hours. Set up checks and balances before reports are released. Now, the world must now correct their database due to this error. .@MBuhari
— #DefendNIGERIA. Je’ N Wi Temi! (@TheOtitokoro) April 4, 2020
Pls these reports should be properly checked before uploading online, bcos a lot of people are really depending on NCDC to give them the lastest about covid-19 in Nigeria.. But anyway thanks for these new and correct report as u said.. And I pray we come out from these…
— IamComwell (@Heiscomwell) April 4, 2020
I'm surprised that some people are insulting them over a correction, the government is not above human error. They could have easily kept quiet about it
— lulu (@claro_queen) April 4, 2020
Why are you surprised?? Have you forgotten that we are all perfect on this app??
— Ìyá Àfin Àtitẹbí (@TebiUp) April 4, 2020
It cannot chill, e no gree chill fr countries wen their govt even do well fr dem,put tins in order fr dem,na here Nigeria wen notin xup nai e one chill…after 7days watch,ppl go com out go work den u go understand d chill u dy find
— O'Karo (@Fine_sides) April 4, 2020
@AgirlieofGod see mistakes they made in the Press releases of yesterday being corrected.
They're humans, can make mistakes.
Their workload is crazy, efficiency will could elude sometimes.— Nsikanabasi Umoffong (@NSYCAN) April 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/therealpeterrex/status/1246412175553544192?s=20
https://twitter.com/toni_ig/status/1246412609139720194?s=20
https://twitter.com/EngrAndy/status/1246415521840615424?s=20
https://twitter.com/Drelmoatiku/status/1246420603982274560?s=20
https://twitter.com/ogaparrot/status/1246412271946956801?s=20
B4 u will know Hw incompetent dis ppl are,it will be too late..abuja of all place no fit treat Abba kyari,and you think we are at our best…corona virus will dig a foundation fr every nation in the world that survive,no much talk ,find ur own way to survive
— O'Karo (@Fine_sides) April 4, 2020
Mistakes happen, but the most important thing is to retrace and announce it. It’s no big deal if they miscalculated the results from yesterday.
We move on.
— A Field Marshal of the Han Dynasty⚡️ (@General_Oluchi) April 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/Santity_OP/status/1246412510896537600?s=20
https://twitter.com/TrueGem07/status/1246412249947951105?s=20
Nobody is perfect but you are making this type of mistake too many times! Don't be so quick to announce, accuracy is very important!
— RAREBREED ♈ (@Loadedbrodah) April 4, 2020
They are being Honest because if they don't want us to know about it they can easily subtract one from the next batch of positive cases and no one will know.
Let's try to be considerate please.
Most of us can't even near the Lab talk more of doing the testing.
— SOL (@lala_sodiq) April 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/DE_COMMUNICATOR/status/1246415234534948864?s=20
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