A 67-year-old American lady has died in Osubi, Delta State weeks after a young Nigerian lover she met on the internet invited her to Nigeria.
The lady reportedly died in a private hospital at Osubi, Orerokpe in Okpe LGA on Sunday after showing symptoms of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), especially severe coughing.
She had arrived in Nigeria on March 3, a week after the country recorded its index COVID-19 case.
The American was said to have lodged with her host in a hotel in Osubi for several weeks before the incident.
“The young man and the American white lady lodged in a hotel in Osubi where they spent some weeks.
“The white lady later fell sick and she began to manifest some symptoms of COVID-19, especially severe coughing.
“At that stage, her lover rushed her to a private hospital in Osubi, but she gave up the ghost this morning (Sunday),” a police source disclosed.
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The American lady’s host reportedly drove her remains to Orerokpe Police Division to make a report. He was subsequently detained.
Sources said the police brought in a doctor to take samples from the lady’s corpse for COVID-19 tests.