Panic in Borno as state records first suspected COVID-19 death

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By Gbadamosi oladimeji

Health workers at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), Borno State, have been in thrown into panic following the news of a suspected COVID-19 death.

Sources say all those who attended to the patient have been called back for possible isolation.

Deputy governor, Alhaji Umar Kadafur, also the Chairman of the state’s COVID-19 Taskforce, disclosed this to journalists in Maiduguri after a high level meeting attended by humanitarian partners.

The deceased who is a health worker by profession travel history was not clear as at time of filing this report.

Similarly a COVID-19 testing center for the Northeast region has been placed at the UMTH in Borno where samples of the suspected case was tested.

The deputy governor noted that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control would conduct a confirmatory test and announce the result.

COVID-19, otherwise known as the Wuhan coronavirus, is a novel respiratory disease which originated late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in the Wube Province of China but has since become a global pandemic recognised as such by the premier global health body, the World Health Organization [WHO].

The states yet to record a case includes:
Gombe
Adamawa
Plateau
Borno
Ebonyi
Cross River
Sokoto
Kebbi
Imo
Bayelsa
Taraba
Kogi
Nasarawa
Zamfara
Yobe
Jigawa

Twenty one states have been affected in the country with Lagos the epicentre.

Here is cases summary as at April 18th:

Total samples tested: 7000
Total confirmed cases: 541
Discharged: 166
Death: 19

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