The Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Vincent Okpala, has disclosed that 29 persons who made contact with the COVID-19 index case in the state have been traced and quarantined.
They comprise of health workers, relations and business associates of the index case.
Addressing journalists in Awka, on Monday, the commissioner said that it took the COVID-19 response team seven hours from Friday night to the early hours of Saturday morning to get the index case after the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) contacted the State Government to reveal that a case had been registered in Anambra State.
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He said: “I went with the team to places I ordinarily would not go at that time of the night, and I knocked on a lot of doors to wake people up from sleep to ask about the individual.
“Contact tracing is on vigorously, and we have 29 persons who are contacts of the index case, and they include medical personnel at the hospital where he was being previously managed, his relatives and business associates. Those traced are being closely monitored now.”
Okpala stated that the hospital where the index case had previously received treatment has been fumigated, adding that people can feel free to use the facility.
