BREAKING: Coronavirus spreads to Kwara as Ogun records two new cases
By One Class
Kwara State has recorded its first two confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease which has claimed thousands of lives globally, VOICEAIR MEDIA reports.
Spokesperson for the state’s Technical Committee on COVID-19, Rafiu Ajakaye, confirmed this to our reporter on the telephone.
“One is the wife of a UNILORIN Teaching Hospital patient – a United Kingdom returnee, who died last Thursday, and the other is another UK returnee,” he said.
Ajakaye, who is also the Chief Press Secretary to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, said the official confirmation of their test results were received from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Test Centre in Ibadan on Monday.
However, the NCDC has yet to announce the results officially.
In an earlier statement, Ajakaye said the deceased person and his wife reportedly came into Ilorin on March 20, 2020, and went into self-quarantine without reaching out to the government or the technical committee.
He said, “On the 13th day of the self-quarantine, the husband suddenly had difficulties breathing after reportedly eating dinner and was rushed to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. Efforts to resuscitate him proved abortive and he was pronounced dead.
“There is no fact at this moment to support suggestions that a male patient who died on Thursday night at the UNILORIN Teaching Hospital was a COVID-19 patient. The deceased, a Muslim, was promptly taken to Offa, his hometown, where he was interned on Thursday.”
Meanwhile, Ogun State has recorded two fresh cases of COVID – 19.
This brings the numbers of cases to six in the state.
Governor Dapo Abiodun, who disclosed this at his Iperu residence, Ogun State while briefing reporters on Monday night, said the index cases have no travel history to countries with coronavirus pandemic or contacts with people with travel history.
Abiodun said the new development in the state is a signal that the virus is not a respecter of class, age, sex or any demographic variables.
He said while one of them came from Mowe in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the State, the other hails from Yewa South Local Government.
Kwara State has recorded its first two confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease which has claimed thousands of lives globally, VOICEAIR MEDIA reports.
Spokesperson for the state’s Technical Committee on COVID-19, Rafiu Ajakaye, confirmed this to our reporter on the telephone.
“One is the wife of a UNILORIN Teaching Hospital patient – a United Kingdom returnee, who died last Thursday, and the other is another UK returnee,” he said.
Ajakaye, who is also the Chief Press Secretary to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, said the official confirmation of their test results were received from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Test Centre in Ibadan on Monday.
However, the NCDC has yet to announce the results officially.
In an earlier statement, Ajakaye said the deceased person and his wife reportedly came into Ilorin on March 20, 2020, and went into self-quarantine without reaching out to the government or the technical committee.
He said, “On the 13th day of the self-quarantine, the husband suddenly had difficulties breathing after reportedly eating dinner and was rushed to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. Efforts to resuscitate him proved abortive and he was pronounced dead.
“There is no fact at this moment to support suggestions that a male patient who died on Thursday night at the UNILORIN Teaching Hospital was a COVID-19 patient. The deceased, a Muslim, was promptly taken to Offa, his hometown, where he was interned on Thursday.”
Meanwhile, Ogun State has recorded two fresh cases of COVID – 19.
This brings the numbers of cases to six in the state.
Governor Dapo Abiodun, who disclosed this at his Iperu residence, Ogun State while briefing reporters on Monday night, said the index cases have no travel history to countries with coronavirus pandemic or contacts with people with travel history.
Abiodun said the new development in the state is a signal that the virus is not a respecter of class, age, sex or any demographic variables.
He said while one of them came from Mowe in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the State, the other hails from Yewa South Local Government.
The Government are doing everything possible to see the curtailed the situation of Convid-19
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