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* ZULUM DECLARES MONDAY, THURSDAY AS FREE DAYS TO RE-STOCK
BY INUSA NDAHI, MAIDUGURI
The Borno State Commissioner for Health, who is member of the State’s High Powered Response Team for the prevention and control of COVID-19, Dr. Salisu Kwayabura has said that the person who led the burial of the first index case and later tested positive to the virus, but managed to escape and sneaked into the Bakkasi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Maiduguri, where he mingled with his family and relatives have been apprehended on Saturday.
He made the disclosure on Saturday during the daily media update on the virus at the Multi- Purpose Hall, Government House.
He noted that upon receiving an alert as to there whereabouts of the patient, the committee went to the Bakassi IDPs camp within the metropolis, and took the patient to an Isolation centre, and now receiving treatment without any sign of symptoms.
In furtherance to the directives from the Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum that the total lockdown imposed on the city would be relaxed on Monday 27th and Thursday 30th April, 2020, the Commissioner said, is a welcome development as it would provide an opportunity for the populace to restock.
He however assured that the committee would provide adequate face masks, sanitizers for people, watch their hands before, during and after they enter any market within the metropolis.
On the total number of confirmed cases, Dr. Kwayabura said, “positive cases remains 15, while the two suspected cases from Dikwa who were brought into the state have been tested negative to the virus.
Of the 15 positive cases, the Commissioner said, 12 are contacts from the index cases, while 3 were independent from the index cases, in which, 7 are in the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) Isolation centre, while 5 are at the Brigadier General Abba Memorial Hospital Isolation centre within the metropolis.
He added that the 17 samples taken from Pulka, where the first index case emanated, have been tested negative to the virus.
He appreciated the level of compliance being demonstrated by the people of the state since the lockdown, and urged them to continue to give their maximum support to the state government defeat COVID-19 pandemic.