Rivers confirms 1st Covid-19 case, female Edo model just back from Europe

Governor Nyesom Wike in a state broadcast on Thursday confirmed that Rivers State has recorded its first case of coronavirus.

The governor during the broadcast, simply identified the patient as a 19-year-old female model from Edo State who resides in Port Harcourt.

The governor went further to reveal that the patient’s travel history showed she visited France, Italy and Greece before returning to Port Harcourt on March 16, 2020.

The governor regretted that the dreaded virus still made its way to the state despite measures his government had put in place to prevent it.

“It is however unfortunate that despite all the preventive measures we put in place, our state has recorded a positive case as confirmed by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

“The positive case is a 19-year-old female model from Edo State who resides in Port Harcourt.

“Her travel history reveals that she travelled to France, Italy and Greece before returning to Port Harcourt on the 16thof March, 2020.

“On arrival to Port Harcourt, she was asymptomatic and commenced self isolation in her family house before her samples were collected and sent to the Reference Laboratory, Irruan in Edo State.

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“The patient is presently being managed at the State Treatment Centre and she is doing excellently well” Wike said.

The cases of coronavirus in Nigeria jumped from 51 to 65 on Thursday night.

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