Majority of patients who go into hiding after testing positive for COVID-19 are asymptomatic, the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has said.
Mr Ehanire while speaking at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday said about 80 per cent of those who haveHe said it is quite tasking convincing asymptomatic patients of their positive results.
”Again, you also have the issue of people who test and they are positive but they have no symptoms. They think you are going to look for them, they run and go into hiding or they disappear,” he said.Several reports from across the country reveal how positive COVID-19 patients avoid being treated at the designated isolation centres and some break out from the centres after being admitted.in Kano State allegedly ran away.
He noted that some fatalities recorded from the virus are due to changes in the condition of patients while staying outside the isolation facilities.
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