The Abia State government, through the commissioner for information, John Okiyi Kalu, has published an update on the confirmed cases of coronavirus patients.
This is following the confirmation of the index cases of the novel covid19 which were confirmed by the Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NCDC. With these confirmations, Abia only recorded 2 patients, according to the commissioner, those patients are of the ages of 70.
Speaking further via a statement he personally signed, Kalu stated that Abia is expecting test results for 23 samples related to contact tracing for the index cases, adding that Sample of the suspected case who lives off Ikot Ekpene Road, Aba, returned a negative result from NCDC testing center.
“Our index cases, both of whom are above 70 years in age and with underlying medical conditions remain stable and responding to medical management procedures at Federal Medical Center, Umuahia”, the commissioner said.
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Kalu, who warned the residents to stay at home to avoid infection, urged those that wants to go out to always wear face masks to protect themselves.
“We have noted with dismay that many citizens still leave their homes without wearing face masks, thereby exposing themselves to possible infection within this period of ongoing contact tracing. While we continue to strongly advise against that, mobile courts have been deployed to try such persons in accordance with the existing COVID-19 Prevention and Control Regulations of Infectious Diseases in Abia state.
“We have also observed the orchestrated attempts by unconscionable political actors from our state aimed at distracting the government from focusing on ensuring that we protect and save the lives of Abians and control spread of the coronavirus within our dear state at a time of such global health emergency as this and wish to assure the people that we will remain focused on the task of protecting and saving lives of Abians in this era of the pandemic, as always,” the statement noted.
