COVID-19: Health worker dies in Gombe

The Gombe State government said on Friday a Senior Registrar in Paediatrics with the Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe, Abubakar Mohammed, has died from COVID-19 in the state.

The Chairman of the state Task Force on COVID-19, Idris Mohammed, who disclosed this to journalists in Gombe, said the health worker died three days ago.

He added that the deceased’s COVID-19 test result returned positive on Friday.

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According to him, Muhammed was the first health worker to die from COVID-19 in the state.

He said: “Dr. Abubakar’s result returned positive. He died three days ago and I have just received his result.

“He was Senior Registrar in Paediatrics, FTH Gombe. His death makes him the first health worker to die from COVID-19 in Gombe.”

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