Two At Large After Testing Positive For COVID-19 In Borno

Two patients who reportedly tested positive for COVID-14 has been declared missing by the Borno state high powered Committee on COVID-19.

The patents are, Abbas Kaka Hassan, a 24 year-old male and Hauwa Mohammed, 42 year-old female.

Borno’s commissioner of health and secretary to the state’s high powered response team for the prevention and control of covid-19, Dr Salisu Kwayabura announced this at the team’s daily media briefings which held on Sunday at the government house in Maiduguri.

The commissioner said the male patient (Abbas) was in initial telephone contact with the response team after his sample was collected, eventually switched off his phone when he learnt he tested positive.

He also said a phone number through which the patient’s mother was in touch with the team, has also been switched off.

Dr. Salisu Kwaya Bura noted that a diligent surveillance and investigation team is working very hard to track the patient and further called on anyone who tests positive of the disease not to regard it as a death sentence as majority of those who test positive have recovered from the disease.

He called on citizens to take serious preventive measures across the state.