At least, 11 persons have reportedly died of a strange disease in the Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State.
A source in Bonny, who identified himself as Ezekiel, told one of our correspondents that while Pauline died on Friday, Fubara died of the ailment on Saturday.
“As of today , the NCDC officials are in town and taking samples from volunteers to test for COVID-19 and will soon make their findings public. “Some are saying that the loss of taste and smell is associated with COVID-19. Besides that, the rate of pollution in Bonny has increased. In fact, you cannot drink our underground water because the pipes that enter the water have polluted the water. There is fear everywhere.”
“There has been an increase in drug-resistant malaria in the past two weeks on the Island. There is also an increase in the cases of typhoid fever in the same period. About 50 per cent of the patients also complained of dizziness, bitterness in the mouth, lack of sense of taste and smell.“The resistance to normal malarial drugs results in patients returning almost immediately with the same complaints, resulting in the administration of intravenous injections.
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