Nigeria - Kaduna State Government has confirmed a new case of coronavirus which has no connection to the first five cases, bringing the number of infected persons to six as at Friday.
In a statement issued by Dr Amina Mohammed Baloni, the commissioner for health on Saturday, said that the latest case is a male who worked as a gateman in the Mando area and recently returned from Lagos.
Dr Baloni said the sixth case had “traveled to Kaduna on public transport and made contact with the authorities as his symptoms worsened. The patient has been evacuated to the state’s Infectious Disease Centre.”
The commissioner warned that the latest case presents the nightmare scenario of possible community transmission of Covid-19 in the state as “it is vey difficult and complicated to trace the contacts of a patient who came from Lagos via public transport and has had some instance of local commuting since his arrival.”
“The Rapid Response Team is trying its utmost to elicit from him a list of his contacts, so that they can be traced and monitored. He does not know who his fellow passengers from Lagos are. But the team is working to develop an idea of his local contacts in Kaduna, including any vehicles he commuted in and people he met at the hospital he visited and within his neighbourhood,” she said
Dr Baloni stated that “it was in order to prevent and avert a scenario like this that the government has consistently appealed to the public to practice social distancing and directed commercial buses to carry no more than two passengers per row.”
“The instances that have now being recorded of people spreading Covid-19 from one state to another further reinforces the need to stop all inter-state travel. People need to stay in one place and help reduce the footprint of Covid-19,” the commissioner said.
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