Kafanchan residents panic over suspected Covid-19 case

Residents of Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State have been urged to remain calm and not panic following a rumor of suspected case of corona virus in the area.

The council chairman, Peter Averik, who led a team of Medical Personnel from the Sir Patrick Ibrahim Memorial Hospital Kafanchan to evacuate the two suspects to an isolation centre, lamented the rate at which residents blew the issue out of proportion.

Averik explained that no individual could declare a suspected case positive, except a sample is taken and examined by experts from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the result shows positive.

Speaking to Newsmen, the Chief Medical Director, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Memorial Hospital Kafanchan, Dr. Samuel Kure, said though the two ladies did not show any symptoms of COVID 19, they have been isolated at the hospital awaiting the team of experts from Kaduna to take their sample.

Earlier, residents of Ungwan Mission in Kafanchan panicked as a result of a lady who arrived Kafanchan from Lagos where the case of the virus has been reported to visit a friend in the community.