By our reporter| The Kaduna state government on Saturday confirmed another coronavirus case in the state.
The state commissioner for health, Amina Baloni, who made the disclosure in a statement, said, the patient is a male gateman who recently returned from Lagos and has no connection to the first five cases recorded in the state.
According to her, the latest case presents a “nightmare scenario of possible community transmission of COVID-19 in Kaduna state.
The commissioner said, “[He] travelled 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.”
“It is very 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 visite within his neighbourhood.
“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 been 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 who stateed that motorcycles, taxis and tricycles were banned in the state because they do not satisfy the conditions for social distancing, warned against large gatherings and congregational prayers.
She said, “Now that there is a case of possible community transmission of COVID-19, residents must begin to take more seriously the quarantine conditions”.
Meanwhile, Nigeria on Saturday confirmed thirteen new cases of the ravaging coronavirus, bringing the country’s toll to 318 spread across 19 states.
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control in a Tweet via its official twitter handle, said the new cases were reported in Lagos, Delta and Kano states.
The tweet read, ”13 new cases of #COVID19 have been reported; 11 in Lagos, 1 in Delta & 1 in Kano.”
”As at 9:30 pm 11th April, there are 318 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 70 have been discharged with 10 deaths.”
Lagos currently has the highest number of Covid-19 cases with 174 out of a total of 318 infections, as well as the highest number of recoveries, with 50 out of the 70 discharged cases.
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