The Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, says the COVID-19
index case in the state has rejected the result of the test.
Diri said this during a press conference on the state’s first
COVID-19 case at the Government House, Yenagoa, on Monday.
Diri, who identified the index case as “a middle-aged female”,
however, said the state government would not seek re-testing of the
case “because it is a scientific test”.
The governor said she had been kept in the isolation centre at
the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, and in
stable condition.
He said, “This new case of a middle-aged female, who presented
herself at the Bayelsa Specialist Hospital, Yenagoa, is known to be
hypertensive, diabetic and with a history of poor appetite, fever,
headache, and non-productive cough and chest pain for about a week
to date.
“She did not admit to any history of travel but was subsequently
admitted at the Bayelsa Specialist Hospital for malaria with a
query to COVID-19.
“She has strongly rejected the result. She is presently stable
clinically, even though she is in a panic stage. All her contacts
will be adequately traced and with environmental
decontamination.”
According to him, the Specialist Hospital had been closed down
and decontamination of the facility had commenced.
The governor also said all the health workers, including doctors
and nurses, who were on duty when she presented herself, would be
isolated and tested for the virus.
The Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, says the COVID-19
index case in the state has rejected the result of the test.
Diri said this during a press conference on the state’s first
COVID-19 case at the Government House, Yenagoa, on Monday.
Diri, who identified the index case as “a middle-aged female”,
however, said the state government would not seek re-testing of the
case “because it is a scientific test”.
The governor said she had been kept in the isolation centre at
the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, and in
stable condition.
He said, “This new case of a middle-aged female, who presented
herself at the Bayelsa Specialist Hospital, Yenagoa, is known to be
hypertensive, diabetic and with a history of poor appetite, fever,
headache, and non-productive cough and chest pain for about a week
to date.
“She did not admit to any history of travel but was subsequently
admitted at the Bayelsa Specialist Hospital for malaria with a
query to COVID-19.
“She has strongly rejected the result. She is presently stable
clinically, even though she is in a panic stage. All her contacts
will be adequately traced and with environmental
decontamination.”
According to him, the Specialist Hospital had been closed down
and decontamination of the facility had commenced.
The governor also said all the health workers, including doctors
and nurses, who were on duty when she presented herself, would be
isolated and tested for the virus.