Deceased American woman tests negative to COVID-19

The result of the 67-year-old American woman that slumped and died in a hotel room in Osubi, Okpe Local Government Area of Delta state on Sunday is out and has turned out negative.

Delta state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi Ononye made this known on Tuesday in a statement made available to journalists in Asaba.

According to him, the man suspected to be the deceased boyfriend also tested negative to the coronavirus as samples of him and the deceased woman were taken for tests.

Recall that the lady’s boyfriend who took her corpse to the Orerokpe Police Station according to reports was taken to the isolation unit at the Central Hospital, Warri for fear that he could be carrying the virus.

Ononye advised residents to comply with government’s directives on precautionary measures to protect self from the disease, stressing that this is the only way to contain the scourge.

Meanwhile, the Hausa Community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state has begun to count their losses over COVID-19 lockdown in the state.

Speaking to journalists, the Secretary of the Hausa Community the Ughelli/ Ogor Modern Market, Ibrahim Abubakar said:” Since this lockdown, our business have not been going on well and as you know most of us are business people that depend on what we sell before we eat.

 “We are suffering; no palliative was given to us as a body or individually. Most of us are living in acute debts because we are not selling much and we are appealing to government to consider us, as we are part of Ughelli and Delta state.”

Abubakar lamented that goods worth N300 million were destroyed during the lockdown, adding that “we cannot afford to feed or pay our bills and other things as we used to do. Things are really difficult and the lockdown order affected us so much and hunger everywhere.”