The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced two cases of coronavirus in Kogi on Wednesday.
Although those were the state’s index cases, there are fears the infection rate might already be high, TheCable reports.
One of the index cases had reported at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC)
in Lokoja, the state capital, when he started having symptoms of the
disease but he was later sent to the National Hospital, Abuja, where he
was diagnosed.
TheCable gathered that the man who is from Kabba Bunu local government
area, is believed to have infected his close aide, who is the second
case confirmed by the NCDC.
There is a high possibility that the duo came in contact with a lot of
people in the state before they were transferred to Abuja on May 24.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Nigeria, Kogi has laid claim to a
clean sheet until Wednesday when NCDC confirmed the two cases.
But the state government rejected the results, accusing the health agency of perpetrating fraud.
TheCable gathered that Austin Ojotule, the state epidemiologist, was immediately informed after the index cases tested positive.
A senior medical doctor at FMC told TheCable that health workers in the
state are apprehensive and have been having marathon meetings since the
cases were confirmed.
“Everybody is apprehensive; the tension is higher than it was before the
cases were confirmed. We are meeting again this morning… we have been
meeting since then,” the doctor, who pleaded anonymity for the fear of
being punished, told TheCable on Friday morning.
“The doctors that exposed themselves have also gone into self isolation.
The state authorities ought to have started contact tracing but with
the way they are denying, they are not ready to do anything. It seems
they are not taking the lives of the people as seriously as they ought
to.”
Speaking during an NTA programme on Thursday, Mohammed Kawu, acting
secretary, health and human services secretariat in the federal capital
territory (FCT), said with the nature of the two cases from Kogi, it is
believed that the infection is spreading.
He said the state was immediately contacted “to ensure that they do
contact tracing and carry out tests so that all those found positive
would be removed from the communities in order not to infect other
people.”
“The issue is that there is infection going on somehow and I think it is
the response of the state to search the area and do a lot of testing so
that whoever they find infected should be isolated and treated,
otherwise it is not going to be good,” he said.
Doctors are also worried that not much has been done on the part of government to curb the spread of the virus.
TheCable had reported how Kogi, which shares a boundary with FCT, has
been turning a blind eye to patients with COVID-19 symptoms.
Despite over 500 cases in the nation’s capital, there is seamless flow
of movement between the two places, with little or no measure in place
to prevent transmission of the virus as many do not wear masks, maintain
social distancing, or observe other safety protocols recommended by
health authorities.
Both the state epidemiologist and Haruna Saka, commissioner for health,
could not be reached for comments as of the time of filing this report.
They neither answered calls nor replied text messages.
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