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Doctors and Nurses in Bayelsa State Specialist Hospital, near government house flee from their duty post as two suspected index cases of COVID-19 appears in the facility.
It was gathered that the two suspected cases reported themselves at the Hospital, claiming to have contracted the virus.
An eyewitness, said, “Even the doctors, everybody ran away. You need to see people running away from the hospital. We saw when the governor came out of Government House, angry.”
The two persons were said to have arrived in the state last Saturday as a result of the alleged porosity of the boundary points.
Chairman of the state COVID-19 Task Force Implementation Committee, Dr Inodu Apoku, confirmed the incident but said the two cases did not fall within the protocol of coronavirus testing.
“Still, we took their blood samples and we are sending them to Irrua (Specialist Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Edo State). But actually, they don’t fall within the protocol of reporting,” Apoku said.
Although the state has yet to record any confirmed case of COVID-19, the incident was said to have prompted Governor Douye Diri to storm the boundary points with neighbouring Delta and Rivers states to enforce the inter-state lockdown directive.
