[BREAKING] COVID-19: Benue index case discharged
The 58-year-old Nigerian-British had challenged the result of the test declaring her a COVID-19 patient.
Idoko-Okpe, who arrived in Nigeria from the United Kingdom on March 22, protested that a positive COVID-19 test result, which led to her being taken to the Benue State Isolation Centre in Makurdi on March 27 and subsequently to the National Hospital in Abuja, did not belong to her.The PUNCHShe said health officials gave her the result of the latest test as demanded and insisted she was positive for COVID-19.
The index case said she later called the Chief Medical Director, who told her that she was never “a prisoner” and that she was free to go. Idoko-Okpe, who said she would not disclose her current location yet, expressed happiness over her release.“God has been good to me. I went through a lot,” she said.
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