COVID-19 : ENUGU RECORDED FIVE NEW CASES AND TWO DEATHS

Five new COVID-19 cases and two deaths have been recorded in Enugu state. In a statement by the state Commissioner for Health Doctor Ikechukwu Obi, the cases involved four health practitioners between the ages of thirty-two and thirty-five year old, two males and two females, involved in the management of the patient’s in one of the hospitals before the state’s rapid response team was alerted. 

While the fifth is a forty-three year old male, who had been admitted as ill in one of the tertiary hospitals in the state and on a high index of suspicion before the response team was contacted. 

Doctor further stated that now have the second and third deaths involving a case reported as having been admitted at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH with a severe underlying medical condition. He died before he could be transferred to the state’s isolation and treatment centre.

And the third death was a male COVID-19 patient who had been admitted at the ESUT Parklane Isolation and Treatment Centre, also with an underlying health condition. 

However the COVID-19 cases in Enugu, is now at thirty- five reported cases with sixteen active, sixteen discharged and three deaths.