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COVID-19 Patient Without Symptoms Should Isolate At Home – Govt

COVID-19 Patient Without Symptoms Should Isolate At Home – Govt

The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee on COVID-19 in Kwara State, Femi Oladiji, has said only those with symptoms of COVID-19 can be isolated at the isolation centre.

Oladiji disclosed that the government has changed its strategy hence those who are asymptomatic can self isolate at home.

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He disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Ilorin.

“We have changed our strategy; so it is only when you have symptoms that you can visit us, if you don’t have symptoms, you self isolate at home,” Oladiji said.

Coronavirus Patient Escapes From Isolation Centre

Coronavirus Patient Escapes From Isolation Centre

A Coronavirus patient has escaped from an isolation centre where she was being kept with eight others.

The culprit is one of the eight Guineans who tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

She escaped from the facility in which they were being quarantined in Tamale, Ghana.

So far, Ghana has recorded 152 cases of Coronavirus, with five death and two recovery.

According to the Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, the patient, a woman in her early 20s, scaled over a wall leaving behind her belongings on Monday.

He described it …