Two military officers among four Bayelsa new confirmed cases
The Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC) has demanded a fresh test and investigation of how the manager of the demolished Prodest Hotel in Eleme, Rivers State, Bariledum Azoroh, got infected with COVID-19.
Executive Director of YAEC, Fyneface Dumnamene, said rejection of Azoroh’s COVID-19 status became necessary because it was evident that from the beginning of the alleged violation of Executive Order Six, Azoroh’s fate had depended on the whims and caprices of the Rivers State Government.
Azoroh was declared one of the 27 persons whose results were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to be infected by coronavirus in Rivers State at the weekend.
But Dumnamene said the group was concerned about how he may have contracted the virus, saying he was arrested and detained at the isolation centre, which had also been housing COVID-19 positive cases since May 10, 2020 and was convicted by a Magistrate’s Court on May 18, 2020.
He said curiously, the Magistrate’s Court is in the same premises with the isolation centre where Azoroh was sentenced to remain for 14 days after paying N50, 000 fine and undergoing COVID-19 test leading to the report that returned positive on May 24, 2020.
Meanwhile, two military personnel are among the four new confirmed positive cases of coronavirus in Bayelsa State, bringing the number of confirmed cases in the state to 11.
Deputy Chairman of the State COVID-19 Task Force and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Inodu Apoku, disclosed this in a statement, saying in the past three days, the state had recorded four new confirmed cases of COVID-19 to confirm the cases announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on May 22, 2020 and May 24, 2020.
“The case announced on May 22nd is a single lady in her late thirties. She is a businesswoman and lives in the Yenagoa metropolis. She called our emergency lines with complaints of fever, cough and malaise and requested for a COVID-19 test.
“However, two of them are military men while the third is a household contact to one of the two. They are all males and have been evacuated to one of our isolation centres. They are all clinically stable and receiving optimal medical care,” he explained.
