CoronavirusNewsNigeriaForty-Four Persons, Including Two Medical Doctors Died Of Coronavirus Disease In Gombe State

Deputy Governor of Gombe, Manassa Jattau, who doubles as chairman of the state’s COVID-19 Committee said forty-four persons, including two medical doctors, have died of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)-related complications in the State.

Briefing newsmen in Gombe, the Deputy Governor stated that the state was able to reduce the mortality rate to 2.1 per cent against the seven per cent recorded in most states.

 “Out of the 34,472 samples taken so far, 2,034 tested positive for the virus; while 1,990 treated cases were discharged within the last year it was first discovered in the state.

“COVID-19 is still ravaging the world” and pleaded for the observation of safety protocols”, Jattau warned.

He added that emergency operations centres were created across the state within the year under review.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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