JUST IN: Delta Records Third COVID-19 Death

A coronavirus positive patient has died in one of the isolation centres in Delta State.

The patient’s death is recorded against Ughelli South in the Delta State COVID-19 Chart Update made available to journalists on Wednesday evening by the Commissioner of Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu.

No further disclosure of the deceased’s identity was made.

The chart indicated 12 active cases, two discharged and three dead while the total cases still remains at 17.

It was gathered that the patient died on Saturday April 25.

He was said to have presented himself at the isolation centre in Central Hospital, Warri but was reportedly asked to go home after NCDC officials collected his sample.

It was further learnt that the State Taskforce on COVID-19 on receiving the result contacted the family of the deceased but were told the patient had died.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa had announced the discharge of two out of the five active coronavirus patients in the state who tested negative.

Efforts to get comments from the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi Ononye, were unsuccessful.

He did not take calls put across to his phone line.

The state currently enjoys a relaxed lockdown, but with a dusk-to-dawn curfew in place while the borders – land, water and air – remain shut to further curtail the spread of the pandemic.