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JUST IN: Enugu confirms new COVID-19 case, toll now three

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The Enugu State Ministry of Health has confirmed a new index case of COVID-19 in the State.

This had brought to three index cases of COVID-19 in the State.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, had on March announced two COVID-19 index cases in the state who happened to be a couple of returnee from the United Kingdom.

Luckily, about five weeks after, the State Ministry Health announced that they have been discharged from isolation after testing negative twice to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

However, the State Commissioner for Health, Professor, Ikechukwu Obi, on Wednesday announced in a statement that the state recorded another index case.

Obi said that the new case had a positive travel history, point out that the index case had travelled out of Enugu on March 28, 2020 and returned from Jos, Plateau State, on April 14, 2020.

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According to the Commissioner, “this confirmed case developed symptoms on Tuesday 21st April and reported to a frontline health centre in the state on Saturday 25th April 2020.

“A vigilant health care worker, operating on a high index of suspicion contacted the Enugu State COVID-19 Rapid Response Team, and this case was brought in for sample collection on Monday 27th April 2020. The result returned on the evening of 28th April 2020 as a confirmed positive case.

“The patient has been admitted into one of our Treatment and Isolation Centres, while contacts are being identified, line-listed and for samples to be taken for testing. Decontamination of the residence of this case will also be promptly carried out.”

The Health Commissioner commended the brave frontline health care workers, whom he said had continued to discharge their duties professionally.

“The State Government also wishes to thank the gallant members of our security forces who with our health workers, man our interstate borders and points of entry, day and night. While imploring them to tighten their dragnet in order to avoid further risk of movement of persons not on essential services, across the state’s borders.

“The Good people of Enugu State are advised to stay at home, and only go out when absolutely necessary, further when going out, you are strongly advised to wear an appropriate ‘cloth’ face mask, avoid touching the front of the face mask, and always remove the mask from both ears at once.

“You are advised to practice physical/social distancing of at least 2m (or 6ft) apart from each other, and practice proper respiratory hygiene (cough or sneeze into your elbow, use a tissue if you must and discard immediately into a safe and secure bin.

“Wash your hands as often as possible with soap and water for at least 20 seconds (or the length of time it takes you to sing the happy birthday song twice) or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer when there is no facility to wash your hands. Finally sanitize surfaces all around you as often as possible with a 1 in 5 mixture of bleach and water,” Obi advised.

Meanwhile, As of Wednesday morning, Nigeria had 1,532 cases of COVID-19, with 255 patients discharged while 44 people had died of the virus.

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