Covid-19: Kebbi discharges first case
Kebbi State has discharged its first COVID-19 patient after recovery.
Yahaya Sarki, the Special Adviser on Media to the State Governor, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Tuesday.
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Sarki, said that the Chairman of the state Task Force on COVID-19, who is also the state Commissioner for Health, Jafar Mohammed, disclosed that the patient received treatment in the two weeks of isolation, adding that the patient’s first and the follow-up tests came out negative.
“Today, we are witnessing the formal discharge of our index case of COVID-19 after undergoing isolation for two consecutive weeks.
“Follow up tests were carried out two consecutive times and the two results turned out to be negative.
“The first test came out on May 6, 2020, and the follow-up test on May 9 also came out negative,” Jafar was quoted as saying.
The commissioner commended the health team, the case management and the frontline workers of Kebbi Medical Centre, Kalgo isolation centre, for relentlessly putting in their best in the management of the patient.
