COVID-19: Imo sends 23 persons home

The Imo State Government has sent 23 persons who were quarantined due to their contact with a  COVID-19  case in the state to their various homes. The 23 suspects are staff of a hotel in Umuguma, Owerri West Local government area of the state,  where the owner, Chief Aguwa Osuagwu,   – who before his death  […]

The Imo State Government has sent 23 persons who were quarantined due to their contact with a  COVID-19  case in the state to their various homes.

The 23 suspects are staff of a hotel in Umuguma, Owerri West Local government area of the state,  where the owner, Chief Aguwa Osuagwu,   – who before his death  tested positive to COVID-19  – stayed after returning from abroad.

This staff were quarantined while the hotel was sealed.

The Imo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Damaris Osunkwo, said that the 23 persons have been sent to their various homes to continue the process of isolation.

Osunkwo, in a statement signed by Obi Okoro, said that after being in isolation for a while, the state government decided to send them home and monitor the process of self-isolation since none of them had shown symptom of the disease.

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She said that their progress would continue to be monitored until the mandatory 14 days, adding that each of the suspect cases was given N10,000.00 to take care of themselves during the period of isolation.

The commissioner added that as part of the preventive measures, the hotel was also fumigated.

Earlier the state commissioner for Information, Declan Emelumba, had dispelled insinuations that those who had contact with Osuagwu are positive.

Emelumba said that the clarification had become necessary to diffuse anxiety of Imo people over COVID-19 pandemic due to misinformation surrounding the death of Chief Osuagwu.