COVID-19: Bauchi records more than 90 cases in 1 week – Commissioner
The Bauchi state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Aminu Maigoro, has disclosed that the state has recorded more than 90 coronavirus cases from Sunday last week to Saturday.
The commissioner who was speaking at a press conference at the Government House, Bauchi to an give update on government’s efforts to fight the virus, said the state has spent more than a week without recording any new case.
“So, this gap that we have spent, one to two weeks without new cases is manifesting in our discharge rate. We are expected to discharge one patient today or tomorrow,” the health commissioner disclosed.
Maigoro, who maintained that in the next two days, two patients will be discharged, added that in the next one week 10 or more patients are going to be discharged once they test negative twice.
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On reported cases of escapes from isolation centers by some patients, the commissioner said that an inter-state link has been created to ensure the tracking of any patient who escaped from any isolation center.
“Our surveillance team has a link with other states in such a way that if someone escaped, they will trace him,”, the commissioner said.
He said that the surveillance team in Bauchi has traced a contact from Taraba state who escaped to the state and has been brought to the isolation centre.
