A 35-year-old woman, who fled the coronavirus an isolation centre in Abuja, has been arrested in Nasarawa State where she sought refuge.

The 35-year-old Oyo State native from Ibadan was arrested in Nasarawa following a tip-off via phone that a contact of a lady who ran away from isolation centre has arrived Akwanga Local Government Area of the state.

“I received a call from security operative in Abuja, that they tracked the contact of a lady who ran away from isolation from Abuja, to Akwanga. Immediately I got the call, I swung into action by calling my people in Kurmin Tagwaye village in Akwanga, and they traced the woman in a house in the Village,” the local government source said.

It was further gathered that the woman was traced to a house belonging to a deacon, who was simply identified as Moses, behind ERCC Church, Kurmin Tagwaye along Wamba Road in Akwanga.

WuzupNigeria reports that the woman had been taken to the isolation centre at General Hospital Akwanga.

Meanwhile, two persons believed to have cases of coronavirus have been isolated at the General Hospital Akwanga, the headquarter of Akwanga local government area of the state.

One of the suspected patients it was learnt that hails from Rinze Town in the Akwanga local government area of the state, while the identity and the destination of the second patient could not be ascertained.

A source at the Akwanga General Hospital said the first suspect was brought in on Thursday, while the second suspect was brought on Saturday morning.

Confirming the incident to our correspondent on Monday, the state Commissioner for Health, pharmacist Ahmed Yahaya, said that two patients have been isolated at the Akwanga general hospital.

His words,

“We have isolated some people, they are all isolated as suspected patients of Coronavirus pending the outcome and confirmation of the results.”