“Before the patient was taken to the isolation centre, he died on April 26.”
Kebbi State has recorded the first death arising from the second index case of novel coronavirus pandemic.
Jafaar, who is the state Commissioner for Health, explained that the patient was discovered at the Federal Medical Centre , Birnin Kebbi to be diabetic and hypertensive before contracting the virus.“He was a 60-year-old man brought from Usmanu Dan Fodio Teaching Hospital, Sokoto by a relative to the Federal Medical Centre Birnin Kebbi, where he was receiving treatment for diabetes and hypertension.
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