A Lagos returnee has become Jigawa State’s index case of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the state government said on Friday.
The state’s commissioner for health, Abba Zakari, told reporters that the patient was transferred from Kano where he had tested positive and was in isolation.
The patient, a 26-year-old, is a resident of Kaugama Local Government Area of Jigawa State.
He was detected at Kano, Jigawa land border by health officials from Kano State where his sample was taken.
Mr Zakari said the patient was currently at Jigawa isolation centre and was responding to treatment.
“They were two migrant persons, both of whom are indigenes of Jigawa State returning from Lagos. Their samples were taken, one positive, the other negative, they are now at one of Jigawa isolation centres,” he said.
Zakari, who is also the chairman of Jigawa’s task force on COVID-19, said the case was earlier recorded by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in Kano and should not be considered a new case in Nigeria.
