2 COVID-19 patients on the run in Borno state

Two patients who tried positive for COVID-19, are on the run in Borno state.

Abbas Kaka Hassan, a multi year-old male, and Hauwa Mohammed, a multi year-old female, are on the pursued testing positive to COVID-19 at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in Borno State.

The male is from Layin Tanki in Gwange 11 while the lady lives in Shuwari ward.

Bqorno Commissioner of Health and Secretary to the state's powerful reaction group for the avoidance and control of COVID-19, Dr Salisu Kwayabura reported this at the group's every day media briefings which hung on Sunday at the administration house in Maiduguri.

He at first gave the male's name while preparation writers. After the preparation, he got extra data of a lady additionally on the run.

The chief said the male patient (Abbas), who was in starting phone contact with the reaction group after his example was gathered, in the long run turned off his telephone when he learnt he tried positive. He additionally said a telephone number through which the patient's mom was in contact with the group, has likewise been turned off.

"At the point when tests of patients with contacts to file cases are gathered, they are regularly encouraged to go on self-disconnection. They give their contacts so they can be arrived at when results are out. This is the standard clinical strategy. You cannot confine somebody with suspected contact. We don't have the legitimate forces to do that. Different patients were likewise permitted to leave yet they came into seclusion focuses and we have 19 of them in two separation habitats. Be that as it may, the youngster being referred to, decided to remain in isolation".

He noticed that a steady observation and examination group is striving to follow the patient.

Dr Kwayabura approached any individual who tests positive for Coronavirus not to view it as a capital punishment as lion's share of the individuals who test positive have recouped from the malady.