Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has declared a nursing mother in the state wanted after she tested positive for coronavirus and fled the isolation centre.
The governor declared one Mrs Amaka Okoro, who tested positive for COVID-19 wanted for treatment.
According to him, the woman is a nursing mother and her baby is already coughing.
“She lives at No 2 Atoe Idubor Street, off 2nd Ugbor, Benin City and she has been unreachable since her results was positive,” he said.
Edo state has recorded 37 coronavirus cases as at 29th April according the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
NCDC has urged patients who have tested positive for the virus to report themselves to isolation facilities in their respective states.
Meanwhile, Governor Obaseki has explained that the state government is making tremendous progress in the area of screening, testing and improving awareness on the pandemic for our people.
“Working closely with the public and private hospitals, we have screened no fewer than 20,000 people and tested 297 of them.
“This increased screening and testing is the reason for the increased number of cases in the state.
“We are aggressively pushing to screen our minimum target of about 500,000 people and test about one percent of them which is about 5,000 in the next few weeks.
“As we increase testing, we are likely to see an astronomic rise in the number of cases in the state.
“Of the 20,000 people we have screened and the 297 sample taken, we have recorded 37 confirmed cases as at today, discharged eight and lost three people.
“It is worthy of note that late testing was a strong factor leading to fatality. That is why I am advising everybody to go out for screening at the numerous screening centres in the state”.
