COVID-19: Doctor dies, soldiers, imams quarantined in Bauchi

No fewer than 35 military personnel from the 245 battalion Calabar, Cross Rivers State, and 223 battalion Zuru, Kebbi State, and some staff of Army Medical Referral Services have been confirmed positive for COVID-19 in Bauchi State.

The Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Rilwan Mohammed, disclosed this at the State’s COVID-19 update at the Government House on Wednesday.

He said the 35 military personnel were on admission at the Bayara Isolation Center receiving treatment.

Mohammed said that four Imams in the state were also confirmed positive for the disease, adding that 10 prisoners at the Nigeria Correctional Center in Bauchi have also been infected.

On the infected Medical personnel in the state, he said that since the index case on March 24th, 48 medical personnel have been confirmed positive for coronavirus with three newly recorded cases and one death.

He said: “All the 49 medical personnel have been discharged and we have two currently on admission. All the medical personnel who were infected in the course of their duties including the deputy governor, were all discharged on Wednesday.”

Also, Governor Bala Mohammed, said, “We have seen that the armed forces have 35 cases. Some of them came from Calabar, Cross River State; Calabar that is said to be COVID-19 free and when they came to Bauchi, we tested them and they are 17 from that state.

“We, in Bauchi, are not pretending, I don’t want to join issues with anybody. There is no need pretending that this thing is not there.” Punch