Bayelsa govt gives details of four new COVID-19 cases
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Inodu Apoku, disclosed this while briefing journalists on Friday in Yenagoa.
“All their contacts will be adequately line listed and followed up including necessary environmental decontamination. Samples will be collected from their high-risk contacts while risk communication and community engagement will continue unabated as usual”. “The Bayelsa State index case is a middle-aged woman who presented at the Bayelsa Specialist Hospital with a history of poor appetite, fever, cough and chest pain. She denied any travel history and any contact with a COVID-19 patient’.
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