Borno State Government has on Wednesday announced a new death case from coronavirus outbreak.
The Deputy Governor, Alhaji Umar Kadafur, who is also the Chairman of the State High Powered Committee on COVID-19, made this known while giving an update on the pandemic in the state.
He said;
The deceased is from Biu town, and already his contacts have been traced. One of his contacts is a trader in Biu market. Following this development, the state government has ordered the closure of the market for immediate fumigation. As of today, 144 contacts had been traced, 55 were tested and nine people tested positive including the two who died.
Kadafur urged the public to maintain hygiene and other precautionary measures advised by experts.
NAN reports that the first case was a retired anaesthetic nurse, who died at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital on Saturday.
Following the confirmation of the COVID-19 index case in Borno, Governor Babagana Zulum ordered a two-week total lockdown as from Wednesday.
Zulum, who made the declaration in a broadcast in Maiduguri on Monday, however, said the restriction would not apply to the providers of essential services.
Meanwhile, the Delta State Government has announced that the state has recorded two new confirmed cases of COVID-19.
The Commissioner for Health, Mordi Ononye, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Asaba.
He said that the new cases have brought the total confirmed cases in the state to six, with one death and five active cases.
Ononye said that the active cases were being treated at the Isolation centres in the state.
He stated that the two new cases, one female and one male, were recorded at Uvwie and Udu Local Government Areas of the state.
The commissioner further disclosed that all the patients were doing very well and urged Deltans with symptoms of the COVID-19 like fever, malaria, catarrh, cough, chest pain, difficulty in breathing and loss of appetite to report to the nearest government hospital for medical evaluation and possible testing.
He stressed that;
All the patients of the active cases are in stable condition and are receiving treatment from our team of medical professionals at our isolation centres across the state. We have 11 persons quarantined in our holding centres, while 140 contacts are being monitored across the state.
