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General News of Monday, 13 April 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

JUST IN: Anambra quarantines 29 people over coronavirus

Nigeria has over 300 cases of COVID-19 Nigeria has over 300 cases of COVID-19

Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala, has revealed that there are currently 29 people in quarantine due to coronavirus.

He said that all persons have had contact with the state's COVID-19 index case and they include health workers, relations and business partners.

Okpala revealed to journalists in Awka that it took the state's ave details of how the COVID-19 response team seven hours to track the index case following a tip-off from the National Centre for Disease Control.

The Commissioner for Health Said, “I went with the team to places I ordinarily would not go at that time of the night, and I knocked on a lot of doors to wake people up from sleep to ask about the individual.

“He left the hospital when he should not have left, and usually, while waiting for patient’s result, we keep them in check, but this man eloped even before the result was out, and when I called the doctor managing him, and he told me the man was not in the hospital, we had to go looking for him.

“Presently, the index case is being treated at an isolation centre, and he is receiving the best of treatment ever. He has every facility he needs and is also provided whatever he wants.

“Contact tracing is on vigorously, and we have 29 persons who are contacts of the index case, and they include medical personnel at the hospital where he was being previously managed, his relatives and business associates. Those traced are being closely monitored now.”

He said the hospital where the case was previously treated has been fumigated, and people should feel free to use the facility.

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