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Edo discharges seventeen more COVID-19 patients, records seventeenth death

Last updated: June 3, 2020 8:12 pm
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Edo State Government has announced the recovery and discharge of seventeen more COVID-19 patients, who tested negative for the virus and have been cleared to reunite with the society.

Governor Godwin Obaseki, said a total of eighty nine patients have now been managed and discharged from various treatment centres in the state.

The Governor, who decried the alarming rate of community spread of the virus, urged residents to complement government’s efforts at containing the pandemic by complying with all guidelines against the spread of the infectious disease.

Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, expressed worry over the spike in COVID-19 related deaths in the state, attributing the incidents to late detection and treatment.

Okundia noted that Edo has so far tested two thousand, five hundred and seventy six residents, recording a total of three hundred and thirty six confirmed cases, with seventeen deaths.

The Commissioner alleged that many residents were still giving out wrong addresses and phone numbers during sample collection which makes it difficult for contact tracers to track down confirmed cases after laboratory results are released.

He revealed that the state’s surveillance system was able to pick out a resident who tested positive over a week ago, but evaded treatment and repeated the test with different names at two different locations, which all turned out positive.

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This resulted in the subtraction of two cases from the state’s total confirmed cases.

(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)

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