Posted on: Mon 20-04-2020

A staff member of the World Health Organisation, Bauchi State Office, has tested positive for coronavirus. The new case brings the total number of active COVID-10 cases in the state to two.

The Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Rilwan Mohammed, disclosed this in a telephone interview on Sunday. He said the WHO worker returned to Bauchi after having a close contact with a positive patient in Kano State.

Mohammed said, “We have an additional case in the state, the result was sent to me around 4pm today (Sunday). He is the contact of a positive patient in Kano. “He started having symptoms three days ago, then yesterday (Saturday) we took his samples and sent it to Abuja for confirmation and it was returned this afternoon, it was positive.

“We have decontaminated the whole UNICEF and the WHO offices and sealed it. We have taken samples of seven that had close contact with him. They are about 15 contacts that we are monitoring and we are going to take their samples.”

Bauchi so far, has seven positive cases, with five people discharged.

Source: Punch

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