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Covid-19:Deniability Scales Up Transmission In Conflict-Hit NW.

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Editorial . image credit: CDC The doctor-patient confidentiality oath forbids medical practitioners from revealing the health status of patients. The health record(s) of a patient can only be made public by a doctor, nurse or any medical practitional when a patient authorizes for the patient-doctor confidentiality pact to be breached. Same oath applies for cases of the Covid-19 world over. When the first case of the virus was announced in the North West region in the month of April this year, inhabitants of the conflict hit zone just like others elsewhere in the country, argued that it was one of government's tool, designed to attract funds into it's coffers from the World Health Organization (W.H.O). That's just one of the many conspiracy theories you'll get on and offline about Covid-19 in the country till date. image credit: CDC Today the North West region  as of the date of this report has recorded a total of 234 of the over 10,000 cases of the pandemic in the cou...