Ekiti State Government has announced the first COVID-19 death in the state on Wednesday.
This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Health, Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, who also stated that the patient died at the intensive care unit of Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, about 6:58am on Wednesday.
According to the commissioner, the victim, who put to bed a few days back, is a 29-year-old community health worker and the third case recorded in the state.
Yaya-Kolade said;
“The woman showed signs of stability on Monday but unfortunately her condition deteriorated yesterday and we lost her exactly 6:58am today (Wednesday).”
Regarding deliberation on whether the corpse of the deceased would be released to the fimily, she said “we are going to liaise with the family on her burial. We are going to consider safety despite that there was the assumption that the virus is not active in corpse because we don’t know much about the virus.”
“But whatever we are going to do won’t be against the interest of the family. But let me assure you that the state will also be on the side of safety.”
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The Commissioner also disclosed that all the 78 persons who had contacts with the deceased and the medical doctor, who was infected through her, had been traced and quarantined.