A man who tested positive for the coronavirus in Kebbi State had absconded from an isolation centre and subsequently died in his house, the state COVID-19 Task Force chairman, Jaafaru Mohammed has said.
Mohammmed, who is also the state Commissioner for Health disclosed this in Birnin-Kebbi on Saturday, when he briefed newsmen on the situation report on activities of the state’s COVID-19 Task Force on the pandemic in the state.
He said, “the second case was a patient from the Federal Medical Centre, Birnin Kebbi. He was a 60-year-old man, a known diabetic and hypertensive patient who was brought to the isolation centre from the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Sokoto, by his relatives.
A man who tested positive for the coronavirus in Kebbi State had absconded from an isolation centre and subsequently died in his house, the state COVID-19 Task Force chairman, Jaafaru Mohammed has said.
Mohammmed, who is also the state Commissioner for Health disclosed this in Birnin-Kebbi on Saturday, when he briefed newsmen on the situation report on activities of the state’s COVID-19 Task Force on the pandemic in the state.
He said, “the second case was a patient from the Federal Medical Centre, Birnin Kebbi. He was a 60-year-old man, a known diabetic and hypertensive patient who was brought to the isolation centre from the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Sokoto, by his relatives.
