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Abia Gov’t finds missing suspected coronavirus case

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Abia government says the suspected coronavirus case which it declared wanted on April 17 has been found and placed in an isolation center in the state.

Abia government on Saturday said that the suspected coronavirus case which it declared wanted on April 17 has been found and placed in an isolation center in the state.

Chief John Okiyi-Kalu, the Commissioner for Information made the disclosure in a statement he issued in Umuahia on Saturday.

Okiyi-Kalu said that health officials at the isolation facility had collected samples from the suspected coronavirus case and dispatched the samples to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) for testing.

He said that the Abia State COVID-19 Medical Rapid Response (RR) Team received information from NCDC national control room on a suspected COVID-19 patient named Vincent Prosper,

“He called from Abia State to report that he had symptoms of COVID-19 and recently had contacts with a confirmed patient in Akwa Ibom as well as recently returned from Lagos.

“Our team called and asked the individual to isolate himself pending the team’s arrival to take samples for testing. On arrival at the given location, he disappeared.

“We continued to look for him and at some point got him again on the phone and he gave us a wrong address at Azikiwe Road, Aba and a team was immediately dispatched to the location but did not find him there.

“Last night, the security agency identified his location. This morning our Rapid Response team stormed the location with security agents and took him into custody at our isolation facility at Amachara,” Okiyi-Kalu said.

He said the suspected coronavirus case was cooperating and had given all necessary information, including the disclosure that he recently returned from Lagos, but did not visit Akwa Ibom,

“Since his return, he has been residing in a community on the border between Abia and Akwa Ibom.

“Also, that his real name is not Vincent Prosper and he actually made the call to NCDC control room,” the commissioner said.

Okiyi-Kalu urged the people of Abia to be calm, adding that COVID-19 was not a death sentence.

He called on the people to desist from stigmatising anyone because of the disease.

He appealed to residents to make themselves available to the relevant authorities whenever they observed that they were showing symptoms of the disease.

Okiyi-Kalu said that the government would “confidentially do the needful”, adding that it would continue to handle coronavirus issues with utmost professionalism.

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