Operatives of the Nigeria Police, A Division, Warri Area Command and officials of the Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State have sealed up the clinic that the first death from Coronavirus in the state was admitted before he was transferred to the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, late Thursday, stated that a second case of Coronavirus infection in the state died shortly before the arrival of the result of his blood samples from Irrua in Edo State.
Facts have however emerged that the building occupying the clinic where the COVID – 19 positive patients who died on Thursday was first admitted, was sealed up on Friday.
The clinic, (names withheld) of Ekurede Itsekiri Road in Warri, was sealed up by the police operatives led by the DPO of A Division, Onyeke Ezekiel, the local government officials and some community leaders.
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The COVID -19 death, said to be a tòp official of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), had a brief admission at the clinic before he was referred to DELSUTH at Oghara where he died before the result of his blood sample, which was positive, arrived.
TribuneOnline further gathered that the police operatives and local government officials who went to effect the sealing of the clinic, which is a flat in a residential block of flats, met some resistance from the youths at the slum.
Meanwhile, following the announcement of the first COVID-19 fatality case in Delta, security operatives have intensified patrol in the oil-rich Warri and environs to affect the ongoing lockdown in the state.
Before the Thursday announcement of the fatality, residents in most parts of the state had begun to violate the sit-at-home order of the state government as it almost relapsed into business as usual.
Tricycles and mini buses operators flooded the roads observing their transport business in violation of the lockdown order and social distancing directive as they stuff their automobiles with passengers.
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