Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh has added his voice to the ongoing controversy surrounding Nicki Minaj and outlandish comments she made about Covid-19 vaccines.

Minaj, who is Trinidadian, has been facing heavy backlash after claiming her cousin’s friend in Trinidad suffered impotency after taking the vaccine, experiencing swollen genitlia.

Responding to the American based rapper’s claim during today’s Covid-19 media briefing, the Health Minister said his team conducted investigations, confirming there has been absolutely no report of such a case in this country.

“We had to check and make sure that what she was claiming was either true or false,” Deyalsingh said in a news conference. “Unfortunately, we wasted so much time yesterday running down this false claim. As far as we know at this point in time, there has been no such reported either side effect or adverse event.”

Minister Deyalingh isn’t the first health official to discredit Minaj’s claim. 

America’s top diseases expert, Dr. Anthony fauci, addressed the comment on Tuesday.

“The only way we know to counter mis- and disinformation is to provide a lot of correct information and to essentially debunk these kinds of claims, which may be innocent on her part,” Fauci said. “I’m not blaming her for anything. But she should be thinking twice about propagating information that really has no basis except [as] a one-off anecdote. And that’s not what science is all about.”