COVID-19: Kebbi records index case

Kebbi state has recorded its index case of COVID-19 as a 40-year-old with a history of travelling to Lagos has tested positive for the virus. The State governor, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, made the announcement on Sunday night. Meanwhile one of the two fleeing COVID-19 patients in Borno state have been found, the state Commissioner of […]

Kebbi state has recorded its index case of COVID-19 as a 40-year-old with a history of travelling to Lagos has tested positive for the virus.

The State governor, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, made the announcement on Sunday night.

Meanwhile one of the two fleeing COVID-19 patients in Borno state have been found, the state Commissioner of Health, Dr. Salisu Kwayabura has confirmed.

Kwayabura said on Monday in a Facebook post on the state government’s official page that “Abbas Kaka Hassan, a 24 year-old male, who tested positive for COVID-19 has been traced around 2am, in the early hours of today (Monday) in Maiduguri”.

Hassan, who was tested at UMTH’s COVID-19 laboratory, was declared at large along with one other on Sunday, after his phones and that of his mother were off.

Kwayabura said a combined team of health surveillance and investigation team, backed by a police escort, traced the patient in a critical state at his family house in Gwange 11.

“He was immediately moved on stretcher and is now on ventilator at an isolation centre,” he added.

Dr. Kwayabura said health workers are doing everything possible to revive the patient while a contact tracing and surveillance team has been deployed to identify persons who may have had direct and indirect contacts with him, for risks assessment, isolation advise and collection of samples for tests.

The Commissioner however said, that Hauwa Mohammed, 42 year-old female, who also tested positive at UMTH test laboratory, is still at large.