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COVID-19 Positive Patients Escapes From Isolation centre

A commercial driver who tested positive to coronavirus in Niger State has escaped from the isolation centre in Bida where he was being managed.

Similarly, one of the returnees from Côte d’Ivoire, simply identified as Alaska, who Osun State Government had kept in an isolation centre for a test for the virus, allegedly sneaked out of isolation in Ejigbo to socialise with friends in town.

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These came on a day the state recorded a spike in the number of 12 confirmed Coronavirus cases with nine new infections, bringing the total of infected persons in the country to 174

According to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, over 2,000 Nigerians have been tested for the virus, 174 have tested negative and being managed at various isolation centres in the country, nine persons had been discharged after recovery and two deaths have been recorded from the virus

Ayanfeoluwa Akintoye

Ayanfeoluwa Akintoye is a reporter, News writer and Editor

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