The Bayelsa state government today ordered a total lockdown in the state following the discovery of an index case of the coronavirus. The state governor Duoye Diri revealed that the index case is a 47-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and diabetes who presented herself at the Bayelsa Specialist hospital in Yenagoa with a history of poor appetite, fever, headache, cough, chest pain for almost a week.
The patient denied travelling outside the state or having any interaction with a returnee. she is in a stable condition and has been evacuated to the Isolation center at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital Okolobiri. The specialist hospital has been closed down for decontamination and contract tracing has been initiated. Governor Diri who declared a total lockdown in the state starting from midnight on Monday, April 27,  said only essential workers, pharmaceuticals and foodstuff sellers, are exempted from the restriction of movement.
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